Township Politics

Author : Mzwanele Mayekiso
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776424283

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Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa by Mzwanele Mayekiso Pdf

This insider’s account of an extraordinary period of national political transition is also a primer on a new radical philosophy, the street–smart Marxism that developed in South Africa’s sprawling townships between 1985 and 1995 and rendered them ungovernable for the apartheid state. Mzwanele Mayekiso, a young leader of the “civics”—as South Africa’s popular community organizations are called—spent almost three years in prison as a result of the civics’ militant organizing. Here, he interlaces his personal story with caustic assessments of apartheid’s hand–picked township leaders, with rebuttals of armchair academics, and with impassioned but self–critical analyses of the civics’ struggles and tactics. He ends with a vision of an international urban social movement that, he argues, must be a crucial component of any emancipatory project.

Author : Mzwanele Mayekiso
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853459651

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Township Politics by Mzwanele Mayekiso Pdf

A collection of unabridged articles on accounting theory from the British quarterly journal, Accounting Research, published between 1948 and 1958. Topics include the classification of assets; theory of foreign branch accounts; cost and cost accounting; the economic and accounting concepts of profit; revenue and revenue accounts; costing terminology; and the formal principles of public company accounting. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : J. Little
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773566460

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State and Society in Transition by J. Little Pdf

Using a variety of documentary sources, including hundreds of petitions, letters, and reports to the government, Little traces the complex relationship between community life and government regulation. He reveals that at the same time development of responsible government was leading to increasingly centralized authority at the provincial level, a persistent sense of localism was forcing the state to decentralize its new institutions at the community level. The local population of this largely American-settled corner of Quebec, Little shows, clearly exerted an important influence on the evolution of the education, legal, social welfare, and municipal systems. State and Society in Transition makes a major contribution to the study of state formation in the recently unified province of Canada by taking into account not only the dialectical process between the centre and periphery but also the impact of institutional reform on social and economic development in general.

Author : Yang Zhong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317465898

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Local Government and Politics in China by Yang Zhong Pdf

After over a decade of administrative and economic reform in mainland China, the center has become increasingly remote and less important for many localities. In many ways, the mobilization capacity of the central government has been weakened. Central government policies are often ignored and local officials are often more interested in personal projects than in centrally directed economic plans. In this study of local government and politics in China, the author explores when and why local government officials comply with policy directives from above. Drawing on interviews with government officials in various municipalities and a review of county records and other government documents, he provides the first in-depth look at policy implementation at the county and township levels in the PRC. The book examines the impact of the Chinese cadre system on the behavior of local officials, local party and government structure, relationships among various levels of Chinese local government, policy supervision mechanisms at local levels, village governance of China, and more.

Author : Elke Zuern
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299250133

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The Politics of Necessity by Elke Zuern Pdf

The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity Elke Zuern forcefully argues that working toward greater socio-economic equality—access to food, housing, land, jobs—is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa’s impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights, democratization led to a new government that instituted neo-liberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa’s new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socio-economic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.

Author : Shukai Zhao
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814405928

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Township Governance and Institutionalization in China by Shukai Zhao Pdf

This unique volume takes a very different approach to township or xiangzhen governance. It explores the structural constraints on township governance and the way that these constraints influence the day-to-day behavior of Chinese rural grassroots government leaders. Based on thoroughgoing interviews with township and village cadres and villagers, the book depicts how individual actions affect and are affected by the underlying institutional arrangements and hence captures the dynamic micro functions of grassroots government as well as macro evolutions of overarching political institutions in China. The down-to-earth presentation of this book engages readers to deeply feel the genuine life and dilemmas of cadres at the rural grassroots levels in China.The goal of this book is to analyze the fiscal standing, power structure and public service functions of township governments in the context of its subtle relationships with upper level governments as well as with sub-level villages and the rural grassroots society. Its comprehensive documentation and in-depth discussion provide the best depiction of rural governance in contemporary China.

Author : J. Bruce Jacobs
Publisher : Signature Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133558440

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Local Politics in Rural Taiwan Under Dictatorship and Democracy by J. Bruce Jacobs Pdf

Author : Gary Kynoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1847012124

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Township Violence and the End of Apartheid by Gary Kynoch Pdf

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid, the four years of negotiations preceding the April 1994 elections, known as the transition era, were not "peaceful" they were the bloodiest of the entire apartheid era, with an estimated 14,000 deaths attributed to politically related violence. This book studies, for the first time, the conflicts between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party that took place in South Africa's industrial heartland surrounding Johannesburg. Exploring these events through the perceptions and memories of combatants and non-combatants from war-torn areas, along with security force members, politicians and violence monitors, offers new possibilities for understanding South Africa's turbulent transition. Challenging the prevailing narrative which attributes the bulk of the violence to a joint state security force and IFP assault against ANC supporters, the author argues for a more expansive approach that incorporates the aggression of ANC militants, the intersection between criminal and political violence, and especially clashes between groups alignedwith the ANC. Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He has written one previous book, We are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (OhioUniversity Press, 2005). Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press

Author : Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317661757

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Rural Politics in Contemporary China by Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye Pdf

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China into conversation with the traditions and concerns of peasant studies scholarship. It provides both an introduction to those unfamiliar with Chinese politics, as well as in-depth, new research for experts in the field. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Wu Licai
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814675543

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China's Township System: Governance And Reform by Wu Licai Pdf

This book is based on an empirical research on the governance and reform of the contemporary township system in China. It provides an insightful and innovative understanding of China's township system. The book consists of four parts. The first part discusses the historical changes, present situation and practical operation of China's township system. The second part compares several practice models of reform, and analyses the motivational forces, path and trend of the reform process. The third part studies the reconstruction of modern township governance system and other relevant institutional innovations. The fourth part focuses on the investigation and case analysis of the actual operation of the township system at multi-dimensional levels. Contents: China's Township System The Reform of China's Township System The Reconstruction of Modern Township Governance System Field Investigation Readership: Policy-makers, professionals, academics, undergraduates and graduate students interested in the governance and reform of China's township system. Keywords: Township System in China;Structural Reform;Governance in Rural ChinaReview: Key Features: Based on long-term research on the reform of China's township system First-hand material based on a large number of investigations Original propositions on the reform of China's township system

Author : Shukai Zhao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811043413

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The Politics of Peasants by Shukai Zhao Pdf

This book is an analysis and exploration of the relationship between peasants and policies within the process of reform in China. After examining the long term rural policies, either before or after the reform, it was found that all these polices have been expected to promote peasants’ interests and claimed to take enhancing peasants’ happiness as their goal. Nonetheless, the history and current reality of rural development have demonstrated that the same policy starting point had lead to very different policy designs. Even today, quite a few institutional arrangements with good intentions have ended up with opposite results and have even become bad policies that do harm to people. This book argues that the reason for such serious deviation, between political intentions and institutional arrangements, as well as between policy goals and its results is: as a political force, the peasantry itself has not effectively engaged with the political process of the country.

Author : Ben Hillman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804791618

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Patronage and Power by Ben Hillman Pdf

Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage networks are often seen as a parasite on the formal institutions of state, Hillman shows that patronage politics actually help China's political system function. In a system characterized by fragmented authority, personal power relations, and bureaucratic indiscipline, patronage networks play a critical role in facilitating policy coordination and bureaucratic bargaining. They also help to regulate political competition within the state, which reduces the potential for open conflict. Understanding patronage networks is essential for understanding the resilience of the Chinese state through decades of change. Power and Patronage is filled with rich and fascinating accounts of the machinations of patronage networks and their role in the ruthless and sometimes violent competition for political power.

Author : Carol Wilton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ontario
ISBN : 9780773520530

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Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850 by Carol Wilton Pdf

In Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850 Carol Wilton shows us that ordinary Canadians were much more involved in the political process than previous accounts have lead us to believe. They demonstrated their interest in politics, and their commitment to a particular viewpoint, by active participation in the petitioning movements that were an important element of provincial political culture.

Author : Kenneth W. Keller
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0871697262

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Rural Politics and the Collapse of Pennsylvania Federalism by Kenneth W. Keller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39015039362770

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Toronto University Studies in Political Science by Anonim Pdf