1st Edition
Government Confronts Culture The Struggle for Local Democracy in Southern Africa
By Bruce Fuller
Copyright 1999
390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
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Transitional societies—struggling to build democratic institutions and new political traditions—are faced with a painful dilemma. How can Government become strong and effective, building a common good that unites disparate ethnic and class groups, while simultaneously nurturing democratic social rules at the grassroots? Professor Fuller brings this issue to light in the contentious, multicultural... Read more
Part I: When Policy Hits Cultural Borders
1: Can the Modern State Work in Multicultural Societies?
2: Beyond Cultureless Conceptions of Policy Making
Part II: Namibia: the First Post-Apartheid Experiment
3: Post-Apartheid Nation Building
4: Ethnic Archipelagos
Part III: South Africa: a Fragile State Balanced on Conflicting Cultures
5: A Promising Mystery
6: Democracy Down Under?
Part IV: Botswana: a Stable State, but a Democratic Society?
7: Can the State Democratize Gender Roles?
8: After the Modern State
Biography
Bruce Fuller
