Critical Dialogue - Public Participation in Review

A Journal on Public Participation in Governance - Volume 4 No.1 2008

Edited by Imraan Buccus

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Contents

Cover Page

Contents, Vision and Mission, Introduction

Development and new forms of democracy in Durban
Richard Ballard, Debby Bonnin, Jenny Robinson and Thokozani Xaba

Who governs the democratic post-apartheid city? Political contestations in Durban
Brij Maharaj and Murray Low

Participation, democracy and social movements
Richard Ballard

Representative versus direct democracy: The case for traditional leadership in rural areas
Thokozani Xaba

Local councillors: scapegoats for a dysfunctional participatory democratic system?
Lessons from practices of local democracy in Johannesburg
Claire Benit-Gbaffou

Challenges to community organising in a context of spatial fragmentations: Some experiences from Delft, Cape Town
Marianne Millstein

Partisan ward committees, elite accountability and community participation: the Msunduzi case
Laurence Piper and Roger Deacon

SPECIAL FOCUS
Towards developing a public participation strategy for South Africa’s Provincial Legislatures
Imraan Buccus

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