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Research data: POLITICAL PARTIES
2019 Coexistence as a strategy for opposition parties in challenging the African National Congress' one-party dominance
Post-apartheid democratic South Africa experienced the pitfalls of one-party dominance when the country's fifth democratically elected parli...
Download this report2018 South Africa's social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?
Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the con...
Download this report2017 Student politics at Makerere university in the lens of Schmitter and Streeck
While the influence of political parties on student politics has been a topic of investigation for a long time, little research has been don...
2017 Expert opinion: from student enragement to student engagement: what is your theory of change?
Since 2015, a series of student protests known mostly by Twitter hashtags such as #FeesMustFall, #StopOutsourcing, and #RhodesMustFall have ...