Between supply and demand: the limits to participatory development in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorTapscott, Chris
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-14T10:17:01Z
dc.date.available2017-07-14T10:17:01Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractMuch of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused on the supply side of participatory development, namely on how state institutions give effect to development policies. Post-Apartheid South Africa is replete with policies and legislation supporting participatory processes and yet in practice this has seldom lived up to the ideals espoused. This article examines the delivery of public housing in poor communities in three municipalities in South Africa and argues that there is a mismatch between how the formulators of policy understand participation and how it is interpreted by beneficiary communities and local officials. It concludes that considerably more attention needs to be focused on why officials fail to translate national policies into action if participatory democracy is to attain any legitimacy in the population at large.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Science
dc.identifier.citationTapscott, C. & Thompson, L. (2013). Between supply and demand: the limits to participatory development in South Africa. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 79(2): 368-385en_US
dc.identifier.issn0020-8523
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3085
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852313478250
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852313478250
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectParticipatory developmenten_US
dc.subjectDelivery of basic servicesen_US
dc.subjectPublic housingen_US
dc.subjectAdministration and democracyen_US
dc.subjectAdministration in transitionen_US
dc.subjectCitizen participationen_US
dc.titleBetween supply and demand: the limits to participatory development in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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