Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780521030977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str.

Robert Britt Horwitz

Opis

The book examines the reform of the communications sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency, and the print press 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 of state control.