1. Governance, Local Government and Civil Society
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Governance, Local Government and Civil Society

2. Institution Building
Conflict Resolution, State Collapse and Reconstruction

3. Legacy of Empires: The “Successor States”
Absence of Democratic Governance patterns
Divided National Identity
Deep Economic Inequity
Institutional Failure- Links national and international failures

4. Partition: World Wide Patterns
Sudan
East Timor
Kosovo
Bosnia

5. Partition: World Wide Patterns
Afghanistan
Israel/Palestine (India)
Northern Ireland
Bolivia

6. Intervention Regional Organization: ASEAN, Ecowas, African Union
International: European Union, NATO
United Nations
Dominant Superpower: U.S.A.

7. Contested Resources
Oil
Gold
Diamonds
Water
Land

8. Stages of Transformation
Pre-Planning Stage: Military Essential
Engagement
Observation
Occupation
Peace Keeping

9. Stage Two Humanitarian Aid
Immediate Transition eg. US’s Office of Transition Initiatives

10. Stage Three Role of Outside Forces: Civilian and Military
National and Provincial Transitional Administrations- Mostly military

11. Stage Four Interim Government and Institutions
Elections to Constituent Assembly
Final Constitution (eg. South Africa)
Second Set of Elections

12. Stage Five Elections are only a First though Important Step Judiciary
Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms
Civil Society Elections
Capacity Building Activities

13. Book Information
The State of the State Institutional Transformation, Capacity and Political Change in South Africa Author: Louis A Picard THE STATE OF THE STATE breaks new ground by exploring political and social issues about the nature of South African state in the 1990s and early 21st century. Picard argues that the structural legacies of the apartheid state embedded in the planning, bureaucratic and administrative systems of government have a continuing influence on the success of the new democratic government in South Africa. The thesis is that political and bureaucratic institutions are important. The book examines the nature of such institutions in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa by focusing in particular on continuity and change in relation to issues such as affirmative action, patronage, and corruption. The conclusions, following this, are that there is much to be learnt about the current state of the state from past practises. Louis A Picard is a professor in the Division of International Development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
x170mm 416 pages R 180 incl. VAT Published 2005