Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa : Potentials and Challenges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edigheji, Omano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--South Africa.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Human Sciences Research Council, 2011.

Summary:

In this seminal collection, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars draw on relevant conceptual models and compare experiences from other countries to show how South Africa could most successfully build a democratic developmental state. Macro- and microeconomic questions, as well as the institutional, governance, and social challenges facing South Africa are analyzed, as are the country's distinct advantages such as its existing constitutional democracy, its cashflow from mineral resources, and the commitment of its political leadership.The contributors eloquently make the case that for South Africa to become a developmental state that is both democratic and socially inclusive, economic and social policy have to be intertwined, development and democratic agendas have to be mutually reinforcing, and a competent bureaucracy needs to be built to enhance state capacity.

Contents:

Cover

Title

copyright page

Contents

Tables and figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Ch 1- Constructing a democratic developmental state in South Africa: potentials and challenges

Thinking about a democratic developmental state in South Africa

Structure of the book: key scholarly and policy issues

Conclusion: the potentials for and challenges of constructing a democratic state in South Africa

Notes

References

Part One- Conceptual issues and historical experiences

Ch 2- Constructing the 21st century developmental state: potentialities and pitfalls

Development and dispossession

Three strands of modern development theory

What lessons from the 20th century developmental states?

Building a 21st century developmental state

Conclusion: pitfalls and potentialities

Ch 3- From maladjusted states to democratic developmental states in Africa

Ideas and ideologies

Neoliberalism and a new role for the state

The neoliberal institutionalist turn

Restraining versus transformative institutions

Proliferation of tasks

Bringing the developmental state back in

Transformative social policy

What prospects for democratic developmental states in Africa?

Conclusion

Ch 4- How to 'do' a developmental state: political, organisational and human resource requirements for the developmental state

Why bother?

Different models of the developmental state

How to 'do' a developmental state

Ch 5- Limits of the authoritarian developmental state of South Korea

Development and democracy

Capitalist development and democracy in South Korea

Table 5.1 South Korea's developmental state: 1961 to the present.

Table 5.2 Main indices of economic performance (South Korea, 1970 -2007)

Table 5.3 Main content of emergency measures (EMs) (South Korea, 1974/75)

Table 5.4 Labour disputes and union membership (South Korea, 1982-2005)

Figure 5.1 Typology of developmental and authoritarian states

Different conditions, different paths

Conclusion: lessons for South Africa

Appendix

Ch 6- Foiling the Resource Curse: wealth, equality, oil and the Norwegian state

Resource management

Figure 6.1 National organisation of the petroleum sector (Norway, 2007)

Figure 6.2 Net government cash flow from petroleum activities (Norway, 1971-2006)

Revenue management

Figure 6.3 The Government Pension Fund-Global (Norway, 1996-2007)

Part Two- Policy-making and economic governance in South Africa

Ch 7- The effect of a mainstream approach to economic and corporate governance on development in South Africa

Background

Governance and South African economic development

Figure 7.1 Change in manufacturing sectors' capital stock (South Africa, 2000-06)

Figure 7.2 Components of GDP (South Africa, 1990-2005)

Figure 7.3 Employment in services (South Africa, 1990-2005)

Figure 7.4 Household saving and debt ratios to disposable income (South Africa, 1990-2006)

Table 7.1 Summary of control of JSE market capitalisation (% of total) (1985-2003)

Figure 7.5 Corporate savings and FDI remittances (South Africa, 1995-2004)

Ch 8- Can South Africa be a developmental state?

Economic and political schools of discourse on the developmental state

Concluding remarks

References.

Ch 9- Consolidation first: institutional reform priorities in the creation of a developmental state in South Africa

Learning from historical success stories

The state as developmental instrument: issues of 'capacity'

Consolidation first

Part Three- South Africa's macroeconomic and industrial policy landscapes

Ch 10- Towards an appropriate macroeconomic policy for a democratic developmental state in South Africa

Principles of the democratic developmental state

Figure 10.1 GDP and GDP per capita (South Africa, 1990-2007)

Figure 10.2 CPI inflation (South Africa, 1990-2007)

Debating a macroeconomic policy framework

Figure 10.3 Percentage unemployment (South Africa, 2001-06)

Table 10.1 Health indicators (South Africa, 1990-2006)

Table 10.2 School infrastructure indicators in secondary education (South Africa, 2007)

Why a floating exchange rate?

Figure 10.4 Real exchange rate (South Africa, 1990-2007)

Figure 10.5 Capital and current accounts (South Africa, 1999-2007)

Why a reconstructive fiscal policy?

Figure 10.6 Budget deficit projections versus actual outcomes (South Africa, 2001-08)

Why a stabilising monetary policy?

Figure 10.7 Comparison of the impact of different inflation rates on short-run business cycles and long-term economic growth

Ch 11- Competition policy, competitive rivalry and a developmental state in South Africa

Competitive rivalry and industrial development

Competition policy, industrial policy and competitive rivalry

Competition policy in South Africa

Conclusion: competition policy and a developmental state in South Africa?

Part Four- Social policy and its institutional underpinnings in South Africa: what hope for a developmental state?.

Ch 12- The South African post-apartheid bureaucracy: inner workings, contradictory rationales and the developmental state

Public hospitals: a case study of decline

Key features of the post-apartheid bureaucracy

Concluding discussion

Table 12.1 Contrasting rationales of the apartheid and post-apartheid state

Ch 13- Intermediate skills development in South Africa: understanding the context, responding to the challenge

The developmental state and development in South Africa

Locating skills development provision within an educational context

Intermediate-level skills in South Africa

Table 13.1 Public technical college enrolment (South Africa, 1991-2002)

Figure 13.1 Structural positioning of the FET colleges within the national DoE(South Africa, 2008)

Table 13.2 FET college student enrolment and staffing trends (South Africa, 1998-2006)

Towards a conclusion

Part Five- Agrarian reform

Ch 14- The agrarian question and the developmental state in southern Africa

Food security and human capabilities

Figure 14.1 Per capita cereal consumption trends (SADC, 1980-2005)

Table 14.1 Child malnutrition (1990-2005) and food poverty (2004) in the SADC region

Transforming SADC's agrarian productive forces

Figure 14.2 Cereal production (SADC, 1990-2008)

Figure 14.3 Per capita cereal production (SADC, 1990-2003)

Figure 14.4 Maize yields (SADC, 1980-2004)

Agrarian markets and trade in SADC and abroad

Table 14.2 Agricultural and food trade (US million) (SADC, 2004/05)

Table 14.3 Major cereal imports (value in '000 US) (SADC, 1980-2004)

Table 14.4 Agricultural trade (US million) with rest of world (SADC, 1995, 2000, 2006)

Figure 14.5 Food producer price trends (South Africa, 2000-08).

Figure 14.6 White maize prices (South Africa, 2000-08)

Agrarian elites, accumulation strategies and unequal development

Figure 14.7 GDP per person employed in agriculture, forestry and fisheries (SADC, 1985-2005)

Prospects for agrarian reform: regressive state-capital alliances

Conclusions

Contributors

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Edigheji, Omano Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa

ISBN:

9780796926531

0796926530

OCLC:

1388502059