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Title: | Consociational democracy as a means to accomplish peaceful political change in South Africa: an evaluation of the constitutional change proposed by the National Party in 1977 |
Author: | Vosloo, W.B. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 13-28 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | constitutional amendments plural society |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589347908704745 |
Abstract: | After outlining a number of key determinants of South Africa's constitutional dilemma, the author describes the South African political system - an artificial polity encompassing disparate and incompatible population groups and saddled with an in appropriate Westminster-type governmental structure. The essentials of the constitutional plan proposed by the National Party in 1977 outlined, a number of unresolved question are analysed and, in conclusion, the arguments are advanced that the incorporation of consociational elements in the proposals marks a break with the past, represents an improvement on the status quo, and provides a mechanism for furhter constitutional engineering. Diagr., ref. |