Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa : : Potentials and Challenges / / / ed. by Omano Edigheji.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Akoojee, Salim,; Butler, Anthony,; Chang, Ha-Joon,; Creamer, Kenneth,; Edigheji, Omano,; Evans, Peter B.,; Fine, Ben,; Holdt, Karl von,; Mee Kim, Eun,; Mkandawire, Thandika,; Mohamed, Seeraj,; Moses, Jonathon W.,; Moyo, Sam,; Roberts, Simon,
• HerausgeberIn: Edigheji, Omano,
• Author: Roberts, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

In this seminal collection, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars draw on relevant conceptual models and compare experiences from other countries to show how South Africa could most successfully build a democratic developmental state. Macro- and microeconomic questions, as well as the institutional, governance, and social challenges facing South Africa are analyzed, as are the country's distinct advantages such as its existing constitutional democracy, its cashflow from mineral resources, and the commitment of its political leadership.The contributors eloquently make the case that for South Africa to become a developmental state that is both democratic and socially inclusive, economic and social policy have to be intertwined, development and democratic agendas have to be mutually reinforcing, and a competent bureaucracy needs to be built to enhance state capacity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Constructing a democratic developmental state in South Africa: potentials and challenges -- PART ONE Conceptual issues and historical experiences -- 2 Constructing the 21st century developmental state: potentialities and pitfalls -- 3 From maladjusted states to democratic developmental states in Africa -- 4 How to 'do' a developmental state: political, organisational and human resource requirements for the developmental state -- 5 Limits of the authoritarian developmental state of South Korea -- 6 Foiling the Resource Curse: wealth, equality, oil and the Norwegian state -- PART TWO Policy-making and economic governance in South Africa -- 7 The effect of a mainstream approach to economic and corporate governance on development in South Africa -- 8 Can South Africa be a developmental state? -- 9 Consolidation first: institutional reform priorities in the creation of a developmental state in South Africa -- PART THREE South Africa's macroeconomic and industrial policy landscapes -- 10 Towards an appropriate macroeconomic policy for a democratic developmental state in South Africa -- 11 Competition policy, competitive rivalry and a developmental state in South Africa -- PART FOUR Social policy and its institutional underpinnings in South Africa: what hope for a developmental state? -- 12 The South African post-apartheid bureaucracy: inner workings, contradictory rationales and the developmental state -- 13 Intermediate skills development in South Africa: understanding the context, responding to the challenge -- PART FIVE Agrarian reform -- 14 The agrarian question and the developmental state in southern Africa -- Contributors -- Index