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The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: DEMOCRACY
2014 Twenty years of constitutional democracy
Despite South Africa's achievement in creating this new constitution, enshrining both rights and obligations, the past 19 years have not bee...
2014 Twenty years of reconciling traditional governance with modern democracy
This chapter analyses the increasing tension between state support for traditional leadership and demands for the recognition of living cust...
2014 Democracy's dividend: does democracy work for South Africans?
Satisfaction with democracy in one of the most common measures of political support for democracy employed in survey research, serving as an...
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