South Africa’s Emerging Dominant-Party Regime

Issue Date October 1998
Volume 9
Issue 4
Page Numbers 128-42
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About the Author

Hermann Giliomee is professor of political studies at the University of Cape Town. This essay draws on his book The Awkward Embrace: Democracy and Dominant-Party Rule in Semi-Developed Countries, coedited with Charles Simkins (1998).

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