Prof. Joleen Steyn Kotze
Prof. Joleen Steyn Kotze is a senior research specialist in Democracy and Citizenship within the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State Research Programme. He holds D.Litt et Phil (African Politics) from the University of South Africa (2011). Her research specialism is political dynamics of development, transformation, and democratization, substantive democratisation and inequality, the politics of belonging and citizenship, transformative gender dynamics, and Global South political development.
Experience and special projects: Prof. Joleen Steyn Kotze is a Senior Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and African Studies, University of the Free State. She is a former Associate Professor of Political Studies at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her research specialism is political dynamics of development, transformation, and democratization, substantive democratisation and inequality, the politics of belonging with a focus on gender dynamics, and South African democratic development. She holds a D.Litt et Phil in African Politics from the University of South Africa. She is a C2 NRF Rated Researcher and was awarded the Award for Research Excellence in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences by the Commonground Publishing in 2009 and selected as one of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chambers? Top 40 Under 40 in 2014. She is the former President of the South African Association of Political Studies (2014-2016) and the former Editor of Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies (2015 - 2019). She is currently the South Africa country expert for the Varieties of Democracy Index (Sweden) and is a member of the National Research Foundation?s Politics and Philosophy Expert Panel.
Publications: Prof. Steyn Kotze has published 20 scientific articles in both local and international peer-reviewed academic journals, 14 book chapters, and one book. She co-edited a book entitled Reflections on the 2019 South African General Elections: Quo Vadis? which was published by Routledge Press (2020) and is the author of the book Delivering an Elusive Dream of Democracy: Lessons from Nelson Mandela Bay (2018), which is nominated for the 2020 Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Award.
Feasibility study for a Socio-economic empowerment index
The purpose of the centralised SEEI will be to contribute to deeper debates on structural and systemic determinants of socio-economic empowerment as w....
e-Participation and Policy Modelling South Africa (e-PPMOSA)
To establish a South African platform for e-participation in policy making and modelling through a series of pilot projects. The pilot projects will h....
State Capacity Phase II - GIZ
To extend the scope of the synthesis evaluation on State Capacity with a Special Focus on Directors-General and Heads of Departments by interviewing M....
The Impact of and Amendments to the Political Party Funding Act 6 of 2018 (PPFA)
To access the Implications of the Operationalisation of the Political Party Funding Act, 2018 (PPFA) drafted by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA, M....
The 2021 Social Unrest in South Africa: Primary survey-based research
With reference to the unrest in KZN and Gauteng and its far-reaching social and economic impacts on the country, this research is to better understand....
Conduct and Transcribe Qualitative interviews on the interviews on the institutional environment and personal values of Soweto Entrepreneurs
The overall aim of the study is to investigate how the personal values of Soweto entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial interventions from their institutio....
South Africa Democracy Expert Survey
We propose that HSRC develops and administers a survey of South African social scientists to study views of the importance of a set of democratic prin....
Transforming the Civil Society Sector
To conduct a study on identifying and understanding the transformative requirements for civil society to facilitate the achievement of the full consti....
Public Officials Skills and Capacity Audit
The purpose of the project is to conduct a skills and capacity audit to understand the capacity realities and support requirements of entry, mid and s....
Strengtheneing Women Economic Empowerment in the Blue Economy
To provide technical advice and support on women's economic empowerment issues in the Indian Oceans Blue Economy to the IORA secretariat and Academic ....
A Survey on the State of youth in Gauteng
The objective of the project is to conduct a survey on the state of youth in Gauteng which specifically addresses the issues which are not only issues....
State of Social Cohesion and Nation-building in South Africa
The primary objective of this project is to prepare the draft and final reports for the Working Group on social cohesion and nation-building. A draft ....
Research for the Gauteng Transformation Policy on Vulnerable and Designated Groups
The policy on mainstreaming of designated/vulnerable groups is aimed at creating an enabling environment to facilitate the full development of targete....
State of Youth in Gauteng
The purpose of the study is to conduct a desktop literature review and assessment of the state of youth in Gauteng to enable the Office of the Premier....
LGSETA- Local Government Sector Education & Training Authority
To develop a concept document on the challenges facing the AET in the local government with emphasis on municipalities. To provide a detailed analys....
Implementation of the Evaluation of the Integrated Justice System (IJS)
The study includes an analysis of challenges that the IJS has faced, and expects to face in its future execution of its mandate. This analysis will le....