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Communication and democratic reform in South Africa
- Title
- Communication and democratic reform in South Africa / Robert B. Horwitz.
- Author
- Horwitz, Robert Britt.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | P95.82.S6 H67 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 409 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency, and the print media from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-social democratic ideal, largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models for state control. In the cautious acceptance of the market, civil society organizations sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities.
- Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was steered between the National Party's new embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Communication, society, and politics
- Uniform Title
- Communication, society, and politics
- Subject
- 1989-1994
- Communication policy > South Africa
- Democracy > South Africa
- Communication
- Télécommunications
- Radiodiffusion
- Apartheid
- Démocratie
- Presse
- Réformes
- Communication policy
- Democracy
- Politics and government
- Demokratisierung
- Kommunikationspolitik
- Kommunikation
- Massamedia
- Overheidsbeleid
- Democratie
- Démocratie > Afrique du Sud
- Politique de la communication > Afrique du Sud
- Médias > Afrique du Sud
- South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994
- Afrique du Sud
- South Africa
- Südafrika
- Südafrika <Staat>
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-393) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. The Ancien Regime in the South African Communications Sector -- 3. "Sharing Power without Losing Control": Reform Apartheid and the New Politics of Resistance -- 4. "Control Will Not Pass to Us": The Reform Process in Broadcasting -- 5. "All Shall Call": The Telecommunications Reform Process -- 6. Free but "Responsible": The Battle over the Press and the Reform of the South African Communication Service -- 7. Conclusion: Black Economic Empowerment and Transformation.
- ISBN
- 0521791669
- 9780521791663
- 0521030978
- 9780521030977
- LCCN
- 00063041
- OCLC
- ocm44802820
- 44802820
- SCSB-1216203
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library