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Ein bi?chen Frieden im ewigen Krieg?external actors in sub-Saharan Africa and analysts’ failure to take seriously the experiences of African states. Africans have not merely suffered the imposition of external forces; they have had their history ignored by professional analysts of political transition.

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Introduction,ts. Around half the world’s states can now claim to protect basic political rights and to have instituted regular multi-party elections. Yet the new democracies continue to be dominated by clientelism, social division and class conflict. Moreover, they display multifaceted institutional weakness. Po

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A Periodization of South African History,ader with the necessary contextual material to situate arguments of later chapters, and in particular the argument of chapter 3, which addresses conventional academic approaches to South African history and the ‘liberal-revisionist’ debate within English-language historiography.

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Democracy and Apartheid,tion of democracy and its benevolence. Democracy has been elevated to an almost unchallengeable ideal, woven into a tale of inexorable (if occasionally temporarily reversed) human advance, with the liberal democratic state as the institutional culmination of Western progress. This seemingly naive ce

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Political Science and the End of Apartheid, to their ability to assess and improve the prospects of continued and deepened democratic rule. Democratic transition and consolidation analysis, however, has not represented the entirety of efforts by political scientists in modern South Africa. In the next two chapters I examine four other areas

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The Failure of Political Science,es of South African society created by apartheid sustained these misconceptions. The turbulence within the South African academy, in particular, often led visiting specialists astray. ‘Liberal’ host institutions, undergoing the ordeal of full racial integration, were the sites of much protest and ev

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