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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.
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