Party system, cleavage ctructure and electoral performance: the South African general election of 1970

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Title:	Party system, cleavage ctructure and electoral performance: the South African general election of 1970
Author:	Nolutshungu, Sam C.
Year:	1972
Periodical:	The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:	2
Issue:	4
Pages:	449-465
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	political parties elections
Abstract:	This discussion is mainly concerned with the rigidities in the white South African party-system, particularly those which arise from the cleavage structure on which the system is based. It focuses on the verligte ('enlightened') - verkrampte (ultra-conservative, split in the ruling National Party, the breakaway Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) and the general election of 1970. It formulates how far a certain 'flexibility of the S.A. power elite to adapt its system of dominance to changing conditions, to strenghten it economically, and to streamline it by concessions towards deracialization' (H. Adam), reflected in the behaviour of the party-system generally and in the 1970 general election in particular. Notes.