Making Institutions Work in South Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-928246-36-7
Verlag: HSRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Paperback

Making Institutions Work in South Africa places the structures and processes of institutionalization at the center of debates about democracy, state, and society in South Africa. As they explore the factors that facilitate, and those that impede, strong, well-functioning institutions, the contributors share three core assumptions: institutions are the pillars of a constitutional democracy; they evolve through the actions of people (agency); and they form structures of dynamic, shared social patterns of behavior through the implementation of the rule of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword.
- Where to with Institutions?
- Trust in South African Institutions: The Role of Leadership as a Primary Trust-Building Institution
- Independent Oversight Bodies: Lessons From Fiscal Productivity and Regulatory Institutions
- Governance in Representative Democracies: Attitudes to Technocratic vs. Democratic Governments
- Economic Institutions and the Frustration of Economic Policy
- Institutional Analysis of the Prospects of a Social Compact for Growth, Employment, and Equity in South Africa
- The Department as Institution: The National Treasury and Its Institutional Role
- Separation of Powers and the Dangers of Judicial Underreach
- Remedy, Recovery, Relaunch: Legal Aid in South Africa as a Successful Post-Apartheid Institution Supporting the Rule of Law
- Rebuilding Our State-Owned Enterprises: The Institutional, Organizational, and Governance Reforms Necessary for Success
- From Bewysburo to the Biometric State: Public Institutions in and Critiques of Migration Policies and Practices in South Africa

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Plaatjies is chair of South Africa’s Financial and Fiscal Commission. He previously served as head of the Graduate School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand.