Doctoral Degrees (Political Science)
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The role of MNCs in China and Brazil’s foreign policy towards developing states in Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While most international political economy (IPE) literature has been concerned with the relations between multinational corporations (MNCs) and the host states in which they operate, this study sought ... -
South African land reform as peacebuilding: integrating perspectives from social identity theory and symbolic politics in a peacebuilding conceptual framework
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers land reform as an essential part of the South African transformation. In particular it considers land reform as having the potential to impact social relations and therefore as an ... -
How social media facilitate public participation in the election of a new government: A critical analysis of Twitter discourses in Zimbabwe during the 2013 elections
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research is hinged on three overlapping fields namely, political studies, journalism, and media studies and explores how Twitter, a relatively new information and communication technology (established ... -
A comparative study of the role of environmental NGO's in China and South Africa in conservation policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the roles of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in conservation policy in two different political systems, one authoritarian (China) and the other a pluralist political ... -
International migration, xenophobia and the South African state
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation seeks to advance the political understanding of xenophobia in South Africa by examining the relationship between the South African state and its African migrant population. It investigates ... -
Limits of citizenship : a comparative analysis of Zimbabwean and South African women's citizenship agency
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Developmental initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa emphasise participatory citizenship as the means through which poor women can assert and claim their citizenship rights. Although citizenship and agency are ... -
Social forces, state pensions, and welfare state-building in South Africa and Mauritius
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study traces the development of the welfare state in Mauritius and South Africa from the early 1900s until the present, with specific reference made to the non-contributory old-age pension scheme. ... -
Conflict in perpetuity? Examining Zimbabwe’s protracted social conflict through the lens of land reform
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation analyses the relationship between civil society and political leadership within the context of Zimbabwe’s protracted social conflict, particularly through the lens of land policy. ... -
A framework for constitutional settlements : an analysis of diverging interpretations of the South African Constitution
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa’s transition to democracy has been hailed as exemplary in the field of conflict resolution and constitution-making. The negotiated settlement was expected to serve as a consensual constitutional ... -
A sexual politics of belonging : same-sex marriage in post-apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Marriage is regarded as one of the most important and universal cultural symbols of belonging, and incorporates a range of privileges that can be acquired in no other way. It is where relationships of ... -
Why corporatism failed : comparing South Africa and South Korea
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the aim is to examine what the impact of the imbalance in the power dynamics between the state, business and labour is on corporatist institutions in South Africa and South Korea. In both ... -
Contending interpretations of the rule of law in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following study examines whether there are contending interpretations of the rule of law present within the South African democracy. The study proposes that the rule of law forms part of the societal ... -
The role and behaviour of Chinese agricultural enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa : case studies of Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to understand the motivations underlying the activities of Chinese agricultural enterprises operating on the African continent as well as the way in which institutional contexts – the ... -
The impact of organised crime on social control by the state : a study of Manenberg in Cape Town, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study set out to research the influence of a local non-state actor on the role and authority of the state, in the domestic environment. Accordingly, the research problem focused on the impact of a ... -
Transnational science and technology co-operation in Africa : an evaluation of selected institutions and programmes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the aftermath of the Second World War, the development challenges facing Third World countries - those that were independent, those emerging from colonialism and those still under colonialism - ... -
Measuring political risk as risks to foreign investment : a computer-assisted model for analysing and managing political risk
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the title suggests, the major challenge that this study faces is to set out and design a model for analysing and enabling the management of political risk as investment risk - a model that is both ... -
Marginalisation in Southern Africa : perceptions of and reactions to state regimes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the last two decades of the twentieth century, the world economic order has passed through a transformation which can be characterised as a shift away from the idea of the "Keynesian compromise" ... -
Values and the environmental/green movement of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The emergence and growth of the environmental/green movement has been linked to a value shift from materialism towards postmaterialism. In this study, the emergence of the South African environmental/green ... -
The size and composition of the South African middle class : implications for a consolidating democracy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempts to reach some conclusions about the possibility of the South African democracy to endure. It does so through entering into the so-called preconditions for democracy field, concretely, ... -
Hegemony, 'common sense' and compromise : a neo-gramscian analysis of multilateralism in South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempts to overcome past failings in the analysis of post-apartheid South Africa's foreign policy. In contrast to "explanations" offered by most previous analyses, this work demonstrates ...
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