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Title: | The provincial government reform process in South Africa: policy discretion and developmental relevance |
Author: | Naidoo, Vinothan |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies (ISSN 0258-9346) |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 259-274 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | regional government central-local government relations development planning |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589340903240195 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the veracity of the assertion that provincial governments in South Africa possess a relatively unclear developmental role, contributing to questions about their relevance and continued existence. The paper argues that such a claim is at best uninformed and at worst potentially disingenuous in view of how the distribution of policymaking authority in South Africa's intergovernmental system has functioned in practice, and the discretion afforded to provincial governments in the implementation of development policies in particular. Empirical data from a nationally initiated but provincially implemented development programme examined as part of the author's doctoral research has been employed to illustrate this argument. The initiative in question is the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme, launched by the Department of Agriculture in 2004. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |