Limits of Democratic Governance in South Africa: Centralized Power vs. Local Needs - Hardcover

In the transition from apartheid rule to democratic governance in South Africa, what has been the impact on South African society at its base - on the people in the country's cities, towns, villages, and farms? Louis Picard and Thomas Mogale offer answers to this fundamental question, tracing historical trends and measuring change (or the lack of it) in the dynamic between the promise of local participatory governance and the realities of a hierarchical state.

Louis A. Picard is professor of public and international affairs and African studies and director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His numerous publications include The State of the State: Institutional Transformation and Political Change in South Africa. Thomas Mogale is director of the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is coeditor of Restructuring the State and Intergovernmental Relations in South Africa.