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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"one party dominance"”.
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Beyond party politics : to what extent, if any, are there unexpected democracy deepening consequences of one-party dominance in South Africa?
… for democracy in South Africa. Conventional party politics cannot at present provide the mechanism to check tendencies towards authoritarian domination: loyalty to the ruling party, lack of credible opposition parties and the electoral system itself are all factors contributing to the …
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One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies : The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective : A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa
One of the prime incentives for this dissertation was the renewed interest in the role of party agency for the emergence and structuring of party systems that came up in the course of the discussions about the third wave of democracy and the concomitant challenges to the theoretical fundamentals of …
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Devising jurisprudential strategies for the maintenance of constitutionalism in the context of one party domination
… sensitive disputes within the context of one party dominant democracy that has been established in South Africa over the past two decades. One-party domination is a consequence of the democratic will of the (vast) majority of the electorate and should, as such, be respected. At the same …
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Political Regimes and Social Well-Being in the Sahel: An Analysis of Gendered Development and Children's Education
… affecting girls and displaced women. Chad's one-party dominance reflects how systemic exclusion and poor service delivery entrench cycles of gender inequality and underdevelopment. In contrast, Senegal's relatively stable democratic governance has allowed for participatory education reform …
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What is the role of the Constitutional Court in Safe-guarding the separation of powers in a dominant party democracy?
… presents an analysis of the effect of dominant party democracy on South Africa’s traditional trilateral structures of government, with emphasis on the Constitutional Court. A dominant party democracy brings with it negative features, such as the blurring of boundaries of state and party, and the …
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
Zambia is one of only three countries in southern Africa which has experienced two alternations, but there has been little institutional reform since independence. A time-based comparison of Zambia’s constitution, legislation and institutions from 1991 to 2015 is conducted because the ‘moving …