Social Research articles from September 2005

Social Research archives from September 2005

Editor's introduction.
September 22, 2005... IN 1988, SOCIAL RESEARCH INITIATED A SERIES OF RECURRING ISSUES on Central and East Europe, which then was part of the extended Soviet empire. Our intention at the time was to publish the writings of intellectuals and social scientists from the...

South Africa's young democracy, ten years on: guest editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA HELD ITS THIRD GENERAL ELECTION IN April 2004. This time the United Nations decided that it did not need to send any electoral observers to pass judgment on the quality of the process. Soon after the election the...

Race, nation, democracy: questioning patriotism in the New South Africa.
September 22, 2005... Just as you cannot survive without dreams, you cannot move on without the memory of where you come from, even if that journey is fictitious. Is what we call identity not that situation made up of bits and pieces which one remembers from...

The future of the past in South Africa: on the legacy of the TRC.(Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
September 22, 2005... VOLUME 5 OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION commission report contains a list of all the victims of gross human fights violations whose names appeared in the commission's database at that time (August 30, 1998)." The list is arranged...

The South African economy, 1994-2004.
September 22, 2005... 1. INTRODUCTION Various perspectives emerge from the flood of official government reviews, academic and union conference proceedings, books, and special issues of journals that review South Africa's economic performance during its first...

Just another miracle: a decade of crime and justice in democratic South Africa.
September 22, 2005... THE APARTHEID REGIME BRANDED THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS a terrorist organization. To defeat the ANC, a range of tactics was employed. The military and the police combined to create a sizable presence in volatile areas, but remained...

Science, power, and policy intersecting at the HIV/AIDS pandemic.(lessons for building democratic system)
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC IS FIRMLY THREADED INTO THE FABRIC THAT is South Africa and it has many diverse and complex influences on the texture of that fabric." These influences drive new sets of social and political dynamics that...

Turning gender rights into entitlements: women and welfare provision in postapartheid South Africa.
September 22, 2005... THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA WAS MARKED BY THE extent to which women mobilized to ensure that the new political system would be accessible to women's participation and that policy outcomes would be gender equitable. * Arguments...

Misplaced agrarianization? Reflections on ten years of land restitution.
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION: TAKING STOCK THE RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS ACT WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF transformative legislation to be passed--amid a standing ovation--by South Africa's newly democratized Parliament in November 1994. Redressing the massive...

State-civil society relations in postapartheid South Africa.
September 22, 2005... The basic twin expectations of government are that NGOs will firstly, continue to act as monitors of the public good and safeguard the interests of the disadvantaged sections of society. This performance of this social watch role requires both...

Transformation tensions in higher education: equity, efficiency, and development.
September 22, 2005... HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE 1994 is braided into the bargain struck by President F. W. De Klerk and prisoner Nelson Mandela--both in terms of the baggage it carried and the promises it offered. When the new government came to power...

Toward a developmental foreign policy? Challenges for South Africa's diplomacy in the second decade of liberation.
September 22, 2005... SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT A "CHOICELESS DEMOCRACY" (MKANDAWIRE, 1999: 2); it is not a donor-driven democracy. It is a middle-ranked power in Africa, imbued with a vibrant political democracy, and it has been able for more than a decade now to punch...

Getting better than "world class": the challenge of governing postapartheid South Africa.
September 22, 2005... FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S POSTAPARTHEID ELITE, GOVERNING A MAJORITY-ruled polity has been, ironically, primarily an exercise in seeking to impress those who minority rule privileged. The government has, since 1994, met with uneven success in this...