Power-sharing democracy in the New South Africa

Politics and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-236

  Koelble, Thomas ^a   Reynolds, Andrew ^a  

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EID: 0030305113     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329296024003003     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. 1. Courtney Jung and Ian Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order," Politics and Society 23, no. 3 (1995): 269-308.
2. 2. Ibid., 270.
3. 3. Ibid., 273.
4. 4. Steven Wolinetz, "The Dutch Parliamentary Elections of 1994," West European Politics 18, no. 1 (1995): 188-92. The irony in the Dutch case is that the PvdA became the largest party in the Parliament because their competitor, the Christian Democratic Appeal, lost even more votes. Consequently, the PvdA was able to retain its position as the pivotal party in the government coalition.
5. 5. Ibid., 277.
6. 6. Ibid., 277-8.
7. 7. Hermann Giliomee, "Democratization in South Africa," Political Science Quarterly 110, no. 1 (1995): 83-104.
8. 8. Jung and Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition," 296.
9. 9. See Wilma Rule and Joseph Zimmerman, Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994).
10. 10. The four key institutional planks of Lijphart's consociationalism are proportional representation, a grand coalition, segmental autonomy (territorial or nonterritorial federalism), and a minority veto. See Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), 25-52.
11. 11. See Arend Lijphart, "Prospects for Power Sharing in the New South Africa," in Election '94 South Africa: An Analysis of the Campaigns, Results and Future Prospects, ed. Andrew Reynolds (New York: St. Martin's, 1994), 221-31.
12. 12. Jung and Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition," 301.
13. 13. Ibid., 273.
14. 14. Arend Lijphart, "Majority Rule in Theory and Practice: The Tenacity of a Flawed Paradigm," International Social Science Journal 129 (1991): 483-93.
15. 15. Arend Lijphart, Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984).
16. 16. Raul Mangapus, Will of the People: Original Democracy in Non-Western Societies (New York: Greenwood, 1987), 6.
17. 17. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (New York: Little, Brown, 1994), 18-19.
18. 18. Arthur Lewis, Politics in West Africa (London: Allen & Unwin, 1965), 64.
19. 19. New York Tunes, 1 Nov. 1995, A4.
20. 20. The literature on congressional politics is, of course, vast, but a brief glance at David Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), provides ample evidence for this proposition.
21. 21. David Welsh, "Drafting the Final Constitution," Indicator South Africa 12 (Summer 1994): 17-20.
22. 22. Susan Booyson, "The Changing Face of Opposition Politics in South Africa" (Paper presented at the conference on Parliamentary Dynamics, Cape Town, 11 Aug. 1995), 30, which argues that opposition politics in South Africa is vibrant and not just confined to the parliamentary arena.
23. 23. African National Congress, ANC Discussion Document (Johannesburg: ANC, 1995), 2.
24. 24. Jung and Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition," 277.
25. 25. Ibid., 272.
26. 26. Ibid., 274.
27. 27. See Reynolds, "Constitutional Design in Southern Africa," Journal of Democracy 6, no. 2 (Apr. 1995): 86-99 and "The Case for Proportionality," Journal of Democracy 6, no. 4 (1995): 117-24.
28. 27. See Reynolds, "Constitutional Design in Southern Africa," Journal of Democracy 6, no. 2 (Apr. 1995): 86-99 and "The Case for Proportionality," Journal of Democracy 6, no. 4 (1995): 117-24.
29. 28. Jung and Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition," 274.
30. 29. Reynolds, "Constitutional Design in Southern Africa," 120-2.
31. 30. Timothy Sisk, Democratization in South Africa (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), 190.
32. 31. This appears more and more likely. See the article by Raymond Louw, "ANC Prepares to Push the New Constitution," in Southern Africa Report 14, no. 6 (9 Feb. 1996): 3-4.
33. 32. Saki Macozoma, MP, repeated this widely held ANC view during the "Parliamentary Dynamics" conference held in Cape Town and sponsored by the Centre for International and Comparative Politics, University of Stellenbosch, on 10 Aug. 1995.
34. 33. All three were prominent members of the business and agricultural community. Dennis Norman became Minister of Agriculture, David Smith became Minister for Trade Commerce, and later Chris Andersen was appointed Minister for Public Works.
35. 34. Cabinet posts were offered to Reggie Diergaardt (UDF), Vekuii Rukoro (NNF), and Dr. Sed Ngavirue, Otto Herrigel, and Gerhard Hanekom who had not been elected to the Assembly. The DTA were also offered a cabinet post but the party turned it down. See Lindeke, Wanzala, and Tonchi, "Namibia's Election Revisited," Politikon 18, no. 2 (June 1992): 134.