The State of the People

Citizens, civil society and governance in South Africa, 1994-2000 In this valuable book, The State of the People, the authors ask a pertinent question – did the transition to democracy improve the state of the South African people? It is the sheer scale of the transition in South Africa that provides a unique opportunity to investigate processes of transition and it was decided that a longitudinal and multi-disciplinary study be launched to register the changes in political opinion, attitude and behaviour of South Africans during the period 1994 to 2000.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

148mm x 210mm

Pages:

258

ISBN-13:

978-07969-1985-4

Publish Year:

2001

Rights:

List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About this Book

1. South African politics and collective action, 1994-2000 by Tom Lodge
2. The distribution of wealth
3. Grievances and relative deprivation
4. The formation of collective identity
5. Involvement in civil society
6. The evaluation of government with Hennie Kotze
7. Political participation
8. The state of the people

References
Appendix – Methods
Index

Bert Klandermans is a professor of applied social psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work emphasizes the social psychological consequences of social, economic, and political change. He has published extensively on the social psychology of participation in social movements and labour unions.

Hennie Kotz is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, where he teaches research methodology, public policy-making and political risk analysis. He is presently engaged in research on the process of democratic consolidation in South Africa, elite perceptions and the role of parliaments in Southern Africa. He has authored and co-authored a number of books and has published extensively on comparative politics.

Tom Lodge has been a professor of political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand since 1978. He has published four books about South African politics, the most recent being a study of the 1999 general election. At present, he is working on a book about the 1960 Sharpeville massacre.

Johan Olivier was a project leader and chief research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council from 1994 to 2000. His research interests are social movements and collective action, democratisation, social stability and research methodology. He holds a PhD from Cornell University in the United States. He is currently an independent researcher/management consultant, in which capacity he assists the National Treasury in South Africa with the implementation of government development and transformation projects.

Marlene Roefs lives and works in Pretoria. She is a PhD student in social psychology at the Free University, Amsterdam, and a freelance researcher in South Africa. Her fields of research include participation in collective behaviour, political and organisational transformation, and local governance. She has worked for several research institutions and organisations in the Netherlands and South Africa. Currently, she assists the United Nations Development Programme in its Capacity Building for Local Government in South Africa programme.