Contents
Preface
Introduction
The state of the nation
Explaining the transition
A brief outline of the book
Governance, political accountability and service delivery
Phase one: the negotiations process
Phase two: finalising the Constitution
Phase three: state centralisation under Thabo Mbeki
The erosion of political accountability
The role of political uncertainty
An electoral system that favours party leaders and the lack of a viable opposition
Behind the service delivery crisis
Corruption
Affirmative action and cadre deployment in the civil service
Inadequate resources
The challenge
The political economy of development
The shift to GEAR
Political polarisation begins
The central contradiction
Groping towards social democracy
Acknowledging changes in economic policy
Contradictory approaches to inequality
The challenge
The viability of a sustainable social pact
Social unionism and South Africa’s first social pact
Understanding the emergence of social pacts
The potential for a social pact in the post-Polokwane era
The challenge
The evolution of state–civil society relations
Historical context
Creating an enabling environment
Counting the costs of neo-liberalism
The state, civil society and the consolidation of democracy
The challenge
South Africa and the world
Foreign policy and second-generation nationalism
South Africa’s foreign policy, 1994–2008
Prioritising Africa
Fostering South–South and other alliances
Increasing the leverage of developing nations
Continuities and discontinuities in foreign policy since 2008
The challenge
What is to be done?
Reform or transformation
Reconstructing political accountability to citizens
Reconciling constitutional rights
Economic growth and inclusive development
Advancing civic and human rights and systemic reform
The necessity of leadership
Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences
Human agency and its structural conditioning
Socio-economic justice in transitional democracies
The battle of interpretation
A progressive nationalism?
Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Governance, political accountability and service delivery
Chapter 3 – The political economy of development
Chapter 4 – The viability of a sustainable social pact
Chapter 5 – The evolution of state–civil society relations
Chapter 6 – South Africa and the world
Chapter 7 – What is to be done?
Chapter 8 – Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences
References
Index