Democratic Decentralization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

摘要: Since the late 1980s, need for strong decentralized local government received increased impetus as “African states became subject to external well internal ‘democratic’ pressures” (Tordoff and Young 1994: 287). Mahwood (1992: vii) has argued that demise of “centralized party state” in many parts Africa resulted a growing emphasis on “good government” at level. The focus decentralization is significant period economic political restructuring because “it tends be an important manifestation pluralist democracy” (Mahwood 1992: vii).