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| Title: | Party Dominance and Development: South Africa's Prospects in the Light of Malaysia's Experience |
| Author: | Southall, Roger J. |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (ISSN 0306-3631) |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | July |
| Pages: | 1-27 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Malaysia South Africa |
| Subjects: | democracy economic development Politics and Government Development and Technology nationalism |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14662049708447743 |
| Abstract: | The prospects for consolidation of democracy in South Africa would seem to rest significantly on forthcoming economic performance. How the status of the ANC as a dominant party affects South Africa's prospects for development is therefore of major importance. There could well be lessons to be drawn from the experience of Malaysia, which has earned itself a reputation for combining rapid growth with a racial redistribution of wealth under the helm of a dominant party, the United Malays' National Organization (UMNO). The author compares the electoral systems, elections and ethnicity in the two countries, as well as the party-State relationship and the strength of central government. He notes that there are emergent similarities between the party systems, dominated by UMNO and the ANC alike, and between the nature of their federalisms. He considers the implications for wider postapartheid development, suggesting that there are a number of factors which would seem to indicate that the strategies adopted by UMNO may not be so readily available to the ANC. Notes, ref. |
