LEADER 04366nam 22006971 450 001 9910597147803321 005 20140314133501.0 010 $a1-4725-9305-7 010 $a1-4725-2179-X 010 $a1-4725-2888-3 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472593054 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094571 035 $a(EBL)1656524 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001131712 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12438410 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131712 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11143951 035 $a(PQKB)10948168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1656524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6160289 035 $a(OCoLC)879904327 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255636 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92784 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094571 100 $a20140929d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAre South Africans free? /$fLawrence Hamilton 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-3461-1 311 $a1-4725-2693-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1: Political Freedom? -- Chapter 2: Poverty, Inequality and Education -- Chapter 3: Political Representation or What's Wrong with South Africa's Electoral System? -- Chapter 4: Public Debt and the Economic Credibility of the Post-Apartheid State -- Chapter 5: What is to be Done? Overcoming South Africa's Lack of Freedom -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Despite South Africa's successful transition to democracy and lauded constitution, political freedom for the majority of South Africans remains elusive. The poor and unemployed majority are poorly represented and lack power and thus freedom. Under these conditions, the freedom of the privileged minority is also seriously impaired due to the costs of maintaining their relative security and well-being. Lawrence Hamilton is an internationally-known political theorist, who has spent ten years teaching in South African universities. In this unique book he brings ideas - political and philosophical - to the fore to understand a contemporary political conundrum. He outlines the persistent, unresolved problems characterizing contemporary South Africa: poverty and quality of life statistics that are appalling for a middle-income country, levels of inequality that make South Africa one of the most unequal places in the world, skewed economic and political representation that reproduces elites rather than generating opportunities for all and an electoral system that implements the idea of proportional representation so literally that it undermines meaningful representation. Are South Africans Free? aims not only to explain the current state of South Africa but to provide positive new directions and suggestions for institutional change. Hamilton argues that freedom as power in South Africa does not depend on good will, charity or duty, and it goes beyond the complete realization of the political and civil liberties currently safeguarded in its constitution. Such change will depend on courageous leadership, active citizenship, new forms of representation and a macroeconomic policy that offers radical redistribution of actual and potential wealth."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zSouth Africa 606 $aEquality$zSouth Africa 606 $aPolitical participation$zSouth Africa 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zSouth Africa 606 $aQuality of life$zSouth Africa 606 $aRepresentative government and representation$zSouth Africa 606 $2Political science & theory 607 $aSouth Africa$xPolitics and government$y1994- 615 0$aElite (Social sciences) 615 0$aEquality 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aQuality of life 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation 676 $a320.01130968 700 $aHamilton$b Lawrence$f1972-$01262039 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910597147803321 996 $aAre South Africans free$92947486 997 $aUNINA