Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorPiper, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorDeacon, Roger
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-06T13:41:53Z
dc.date.available2012-12-06T13:41:53Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractWill participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre- piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to facilitate deliberative democratic decision making. Drawing on a case study of the Msunduzi municipality, it is argued here that ward committees, as yet barely functional seven years since first being established, have from the outset been caught up in relations of dependency with ward councillors, political parties and the municipality itself, and that these relations threaten to undermine the democratic dividends that the committees are expected to yield.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationPiper, L. & Deacon, R. (2009). Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa. Local Government Studies, 35(4): 415-433en_US
dc.identifier.issn0300-3930
dc.identifier.issn1743-9388
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/483
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd. This is the authors' final version and may be freely used provided that the source is acknowledged.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930902992683
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectDemocratisationen_US
dc.subjectParticipatory local governanceen_US
dc.subjectInvited spacesen_US
dc.subjectPolicy implementationen_US
dc.titleToo dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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