TY  - BOOK
AU  - Booysen,Susan
TI  - The African National Congress and the regeneration of political power
SN  - 9781868145423 (pbk.) :
AV  - HN780.Z9 P615 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Johannesburg, London
PB  - Witwatersrand University Press, Eurospan [distributor]
KW  - African National Congress
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Africa
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
KW  - South Africa
KW  - 1994-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism: the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture: movement, people, elections, governance.
ER  -