Making Institutions work in South Africa
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE EDITOR(S): D.Plaatjies
KEYWORDS: CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY
Web link: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Institutions-Work-South-Africa/dp/1928246362
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12019
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16063
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16063
TITLE EDITOR(S): D.Plaatjies
KEYWORDS: CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY
Web link: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Institutions-Work-South-Africa/dp/1928246362
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12019
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16063
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16063
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Abstract
Making Institutions Work in South Africa places the structures and processes of institutionalization at the center of debates about democracy, state, and society in South Africa. As they explore the factors that facilitate, and those that impede, strong, well-functioning institutions, the contributors share three core assumptions: institutions are the pillars of a constitutional democracy; they evolve through the actions of people (agency); and they form structures of dynamic, shared social patterns of behavior through the implementation of the rule of law.-
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