Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State by Butler, A.

Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333665930)

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Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State by Butler, A.

Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State

$109.99
Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State by Butler, A.

Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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South Africa's 1994 election was widely hailed around the world as miraculous. In this book, Anthony Butler examines South African experiences to cast doubt on this celebratory attitude to democracy. Contemporary political analysis highlights the benefits that democracy can sometimes bring. Butler, by contrast, argues that democracy can be malign. He attacks the myth that democracy ended apartheid, and shows that democratic practices themselves contributed to its evils. The author also explores weaknesses in political science as a discipline. This book will be essential reading for specialists in South Africa, and will appeal to political theorists, students of comparative politics, and historians.

Author: A. Butler
ISBN-10: 0333665937
ISBN-13: 9780333665930
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1998
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
By A. Butler
By A. Butler
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ANTHONY M. BUTLER was educated at St. Anne's College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham, and author of the Transformative Politics: The Future of Socialism in Western Europe, this was described by Andrew Gamble as 'A major contribution to the rethinking of the socialist project. The analysis is clear and profound and identifies the dilemmas but also the potential of contemporary socialism'.

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