Buccus and Hicks

Research Fellow at CPP, Imraan Buccus, together with Janine Hicks, recently contributed a chapter (chapter 8) on participatory policy-making to a new book called 'African Politics - beyond the Third Wave of Democratisation'

About the book

In September 2006 the University of the Western Cape (UWC) hosted the third biennial conference of the South African Political Studies Association. The conference was generously sponsored by the programme on the Dynamics for Building a Better Society of the Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (VLIR). VLIR also provided much appreciated funding for the present publication of papers presented at the conference. This book comprises nine such papers, which were selected through peer review from more than 30 papers submitted to be considered for inclusion in the volume. After peer review, the selected papers were converted into chapters, most sharing in some way or form the themes of democracy and democratisation in Africa, hence the book’s title. The organisers of the conference are especially proud of the fact that many of the chapters were authored by younger scholars in the field. The project has thus provided these scholars with an opportunity to publish their research, and to do so alongside established scholars in the field.

Janine Hicks and Imraan Buccus investigate a definition of democracy that goes beyond the right to elect representatives. They argue for direct and active participation by civil society in policy-making at provincial level and investigate the challenges and tensions that creating these participatory spaces entail. They illustrate their ideas by elaborating on a participatory model emerging in one of South Africa’s provinces, KwaZulu/Natal.

Here is the Link to their Chapter: http://www.jutaacademic.co.za/africanpolitics/chapters/chapter8.pdf

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