State capture in South Africa : how and why it happened / edited by Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale.
A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture fro...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Table
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Introduction. Understanding and Explaining State Capture
- Section 1. Framing the Issue
- Chapter 1. Elite Formation, Factions and Violence in the Political Economy of Corruption
- Chapter 2. State Capture, the Racket and Predatory Power
- Chapter 3. The Foundations of Corruption in South Africa
- Section 2. State Capture in Action
- Chapter 4. Legal Mobilisation against State Capture
- Chapter 5. How Professionals Enabled State Capture
- Chapter 6. Civil Society in the Face of State Capture: Solidarity and Disharmony
- Chapter 7. Media Capture, the Mirror of State Capture
- Section 3. Past and Future
- Chapter 8. State Capture and the Popular Imagination: Narrowing the Narrative
- Chapter 9. Cycles of State Capture: Bringing Profiteers and Enablers to Account
- Chapter 10. Old Ways and New Days: An Interview with Barney Pityana
- Chapter 11. Can Democracy Bind the State? Comparative Thoughts from Brazil, India and South Africa
- Contributors
- Index