The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorPiper, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorvon Lieres, Bettina
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-03T09:41:23Z
dc.date.available2021-02-03T09:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn general, South Africans view the formal participatory institutions of their state as ineffective mechanisms for the realization of their demands. Conversely, the reach of formalized civil society is limited in terms of policy impact, and social movements have little presence on the ground outside of the larger townships of the major metropolitan cities. In this context, the tensions between communities, civil society actors, and the state, often linked to enduring forms of poor governance, are increasingly played out in non-state and extra-institutional arenas, sometimes through the idiom of protest. Marginalized communities rely on various kinds of informal political practices to access rights and services from the state, or even to keep the state at bay. This emerging informal politics, and the associated forms of mediated representation, speaks to an ever-widening legitimacy gap between state and society, and with it, an ever-precarious participatory project.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPiper, L., & von Lieres, B. (2016). The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa. Journal of Civil Society, 12(3), 314-327en_US
dc.identifier.issn1744-8697
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/17448689.2016.1215616
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5823
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectState–society relationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectParticipatory governanceen_US
dc.subjectInvited and invented spaceen_US
dc.subjectInformal politicsen_US
dc.subjectInsurgencyen_US
dc.titleThe limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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