Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2102785
Ann K. Karreth
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political and historical roots of collective action problems around community policing in Hout Bay, South Africa. Utilizing a social capital approach, it argues that party politics has exacerbated a racialized politics of public goods provision in the community, with implications for the local governance of security. Using original data from semi-structured interviews and secondary sources, the paper analyzes the community’s environment of social capital, the influence of local and provincial party agendas on inter-group relations there, and its ultimate impact on community policing in Hout Bay.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2124641
O. Olasupo
insightful analysis of Nigeria ’ s paradox of democracy with no dividends, and o ff ers some practical suggestions for dealing with this quagmire. Nigeria swims in a sea of crushing poverty, serious leadership dysfunction, and state failure where violence of one kind or another is the norm of the day in the nation due to the political class ’ s inability to fi nd a moral compass and govern well. The author shows how the majority of Nigerians are at the receiving end of the resulting misery and poverty which raises pertinent questions about the essence of democracy. The book details and explains the causes of Nigerians ’ worsening conditions, including their rising levels of poverty, inequality, and unemployment, while the particularly who have wealth instead of providing of the general populace, ts democracy themselves. The author criticised the ironic undermining of Nigeria ’ s democracy by the same group of individuals (the political elite) primary bene fi ciaries. The author thus investigates the necessity of the Nigerian democracy ’ s retreat and o ff ers plausible explanations for why democracy has not consolidated in ways that result in meeting the development yearnings of Nigerians and Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2124640
Sanet Solomon
insightful analysis of Nigeria ’ s paradox of democracy with no dividends, and o ff ers some practical suggestions for dealing with this quagmire. Nigeria swims in a sea of crushing poverty, serious leadership dysfunction, and state failure where violence of one kind or another is the norm of the day in the nation due to the political class ’ s inability to fi nd a moral compass and govern well. The author shows how the majority of Nigerians are at the receiving end of the resulting misery and poverty which raises pertinent questions about the essence of democracy. The book details and explains the causes of Nigerians ’ worsening conditions, including their rising levels of poverty, inequality, and unemployment, while the particularly who have wealth instead of providing of the general populace, ts democracy themselves. The author criticised the ironic undermining of Nigeria ’ s democracy by the same group of individuals (the political elite) primary bene fi ciaries. The author thus investigates the necessity of the Nigerian democracy ’ s retreat and o ff ers plausible explanations for why democracy has not consolidated in ways that result in meeting the devel-opment yearnings of Nigerians and Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2132679
E. Botlhale
ABSTRACT Natural resources are abundant in Africa and must be used to achieve macroeconomic goals like growth and development. Political settlements are important to achieving these results because they materially affect how natural resource governance is carried out. The pursuit of growth and development is impacted by these settlements. Political settlements may either make it easier or harder to achieve these macroeconomic goals. Natural resource rents in some polities do not result in growth and development because of win-lose political agreements. However, this need not be the case as demonstrated by the Botswana case. This study used Botswana as a case study to illustrate political settlements analysis of natural resource governance. It asked, ‘what effect do political settlements have on the management of natural resources in Botswana?’ It concluded that win-win political settlements produced inclusive resource exploitation, resulting in economic growth and development and a rise in citizen welfare. The final lesson for resource-rich African nations is to establish political settlements that promote both economic growth and development to increase societal welfare.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2060543
Nico Buitendag, Mika Hayashi
Traces the rise of Bolshevism at the end of World War I and the determined but unsuccessful Allied efforts to stop its progression by intervening in the Russian civil war, a campaign that was further complicated by counterrevolutions and civil unrest in several other world regions. By the author of The Devil's Disciples. 15,000 first printing.... Download ebook, read file pdf 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism
{"title":"Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations","authors":"Nico Buitendag, Mika Hayashi","doi":"10.1080/02589346.2022.2060543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2022.2060543","url":null,"abstract":"Traces the rise of Bolshevism at the end of World War I and the determined but unsuccessful Allied efforts to stop its progression by intervening in the Russian civil war, a campaign that was further complicated by counterrevolutions and civil unrest in several other world regions. By the author of The Devil's Disciples. 15,000 first printing.... Download ebook, read file pdf 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism","PeriodicalId":45047,"journal":{"name":"Politikon","volume":"49 1","pages":"211 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49085379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2065152
A. Kagee
ABSTRACT This article juxtaposes the principle of academic freedom with the call for an academic boycott of Israel to advance Palestinian human rights. It examines the controversy surrounding a conference that took place at Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 2018, where an Israeli delegation was disinvited from presenting a research symposium following calls for an academic boycott. The article is an analysis of the media responses of academic leaders, activists, and social commentators in Israel and South Africa to the cancellation of the Israeli symposium at the conference. The argument advanced is that scholarship is influenced, facilitated and restrained by political systems, and that the academy is more accurately viewed as a political space where some wield power while others do not. The case is made that universities and academic conferences function as a consequence of historical and political forces and reflect the challenges with which states constantly engage.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2065424
S. Alatas
ABSTRACT Mainstream discourses on the Indo-Pacific have gained momentum over the last fifteen years or so. Since 2007, when India and Japan began sharing strategic assessments after China's enunciation of its “String of Pearls” strategy, military-strategic references to the construct dominated scholarly and policy discussions. This article is an analysis of these discourses, from the perspective of Southeast Asia. Specifically, the discussion suggests that the Southeast Asian roots of the Indo-Pacific construct predate 2007. They prioritise oceanic connectivity and diplomatic engagement across maritime spaces, embodied in the Southeast Asian concepts of nusantara and bebas-aktif. The small states of Southeast Asia had already conceived of one contiguous Indian and Pacific oceanic space within the context of decolonisation, Third World emancipation, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). This article suggests that these conceptual maps remain muted in mainstream discourses on the Indo-Pacific. It also highlights the Eurocentric nature of discourses on regionalism and geopolitics, which tend to silence Southeast Asia's role in concept-building. The analysis concludes that discourses about the Indo-Pacific region would be more informed by Southeast Asia's strategic vision and perspectives on connectivity, which could in turn, contribute to more productive policies on peaceful engagement in region.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2072582
Carlos García-Rivero
ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where democracy has encountered the most difficulties in establishing itself, where the most military coups have occurred and, in addition, where public demonstrations of support on the streets are common after a coup d’état. In fact, the last 15 years has seen growing popular support for military rule. This study aims to analyse the underlying reasons for the public approval of military rule in Africa. Two main explanatory theories are contrasted: the institutional performance approach versus the cultural approach. The research takes the form of a quantitative analysis, making extensive use of survey data to analyse the factors that explain the support for military rule in eleven African countries. The results indicate that in Sub-Saharan Africa institutional performance and authoritarian personality and values, are the main factors driving societal support for military rule.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2067446
Thoko Mahlangu, C. Schulz-Herzenberg
ABSTRACT South Africa's recent democratic elections have witnessed a decline in political participation. Yet few studies examine the influence of political efficacy on the decision to participate. Using 2014 and 2019 post-election public opinion survey data captured after these respective national and provincial elections, the paper addresses a research gap by demonstrating a relationship between a respondent's level of internal and external political efficacy and their likelihood of voting across two consecutive elections. It finds that external political efficacy, and to a lesser extent, internal efficacy shapes the decision to vote. The responsiveness of the political system is a key determinant of voting even after other key predictors of participation are accounted for. It concludes that years of state-based failures have eroded citizen perceptions of political system responsiveness which has, in turn, undermined how citizens perceive the utility of their vote.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2022.2065425
H. Kifordu
ABSTRACT Understanding the scope of elite transformation towards good governance in developing countries’ polities is no doubt fastidious amid attendant context fluidity, institutional instabilities, and literature paucity. Nigeria’s post-colonial polity has witnessed various structural changes, especially in political regime and economic resources. Since the 1999 transition to democracy, no regime breakdown occurred. Curiously, the Nigerian polity has been experiencing spasmodic ethnic clashes, the onslaught of the menacing Boko Haram terror group, the economy disruptive Niger Delta insurgencies, and acute youth discontent with protests often countered with violence by state security agents. Moreover, social infrastructure provision for economic growth and development remains extensively precarious or non-existent. Most vexingly, systematic knowledge about the transformability of the policy decisive and often-critiqued political elite is deficient or sparsely jumbled. Much has been extolled about governance per se, yet context-relative and data-oriented knowledge remain scanty. To what extent is the Nigerian political executive elite composition transforming towards good governance since 1999? The article focuses on the Nigerian political elite transformability through good governance lenses and practices. It draws from relevant elite theories and governance approaches that underscore the methodology. It contends that the political elite innovation remains stagnant, despite relevant structural changes. The findings reveal insignificant elite dynamics towards good governance.
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