A M Faure & Jan-Erik Lane 
South Africa [PDF ebook] 
Designing New Political Institutions

The Republic of South Africa (RSA) held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. They were a highly visible signal that the RSA is really moving from the era of apartheid towards a democratic constitutional state. The process is an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms.

The contributors to this book, leading South African political scientists, discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the RSA′s political and legal institutions. They address various aspects of constitutional design and their interactions with social forces. They examine the new constitution, the roles of president and executive, the electoral, party and parliamentary systems, and the Constitutional Court. They look at the public service, at questions of labour and corporatism, at the RSA′s changing external relations and at the position of the armed forces. The new government′s Reconstruction and Development Programme, of which so much is expected, is seen to be particularly vulnerable to the pull of opposing forces.

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Introduction – Jan-Erik Lane and Murray Faure

The Salient Features of the Interim Constitution – Joh J van Tonder

The New South African Constitution – Dirk Kotz[ac]e

The President and the Executive – Robert Schrire

The Constitutional Court – Kierin O′Malley

The Electoral System – Murray Faure

South Africa′s Party System – Susan Botha

South Africa′s Changing External Relations – Marie Muller

The New South Africa and the Armed Forces – Deon Fourie

Administrative Justice in the Public Service – Dirk J Brynard

A Public Administration Interpretation of Section 24 of the Constitution

Relations between State, Capital and Labor in South Africa – Louwrens Pretorius

Towards Corporatism?

The Politics of Affirmative Action in the Old and the New South Africa – Pierre Hugo

The Reconstruction and Development Programme – Robert Cameron

South Africa′s Constitutional Development – Andr[ac]e Louw

The New Parliament – Hennie Kotz[ac]e

Transforming the Westminster Heritage

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Jan-Erik Lane is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.