ANC Dominance and Democratic Consolidation in South Africa
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Robert Wieczorek is a senior Schreyer Honors Scholar, Paterno Fellow, and Strategic and Global Security Scholar majoring in International Politics with minors in Global Security and Sociology. He has interned for a United States Congresswoman, the International Center for the Study of Terrorism, and Toffler Associates consulting firm. Rob was inspired to write “ANC Dominance and Democratic Consolidation in South Africa” while studying nation building and challenges to democratization at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape of South Africa in 2011. In the fall he will be attending the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy at the University of Texas. Abstract
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