SOUTH AFRICA, COALITION AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT: SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM A TERTIUM GENUS?

Systems of Government: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism

Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: Which One is Best? With the exception of the United States, where a system of separation of executive and legislative powers exists, all countries that are considered to be stable democracies adopt a constitution that is, at least partially, parliamentary. A parliamentary constitution is characterized by the fusion of executive and legislative powers,...

Information Management, IT and Government Transformation... South Africa

................................................................................................................................... 1 A. BACKGROUND TO GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA ........................................ 2 A1. The Transformation Agenda of the State ............................................................................. 2 A2. Current Government Processes and I...

The perils of semi-presidentialism. Are they exaggerated?

Local Government Asymmetry and the IGFR System in South Africa

This paper describes the historical processes that resulted in the considerable socioeconomic disparities that are found in South Afr ica. Owing to the spatial orientation of much of apartheid policy, these dispar ities have a distinctive geographic form, with signif icant socio-economic contrasts within rural and urban areas and bet ween urban and rural areas more broadly. It was inev itable t...

Knowledge management and trust in government: Lessons from South Africa

This paper started out with the assumption that a citizenry well-informed about the policy problems identified by government and about the government’s strategies for dealing with those problems would potentially have more trust in a government if those strategies are perceived by the citizens to be the best to protect and promote their interests under the circumstances. The interaction between...