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Local Government in South Africa: Political Decentralisation, Party Centralisation, Corruption and Maladministration
No full textThis study focuses on local governance in South Africa with respect to corruption, clientelism and mismanagement. The objective is to examine the local government system to see to what extent corruption, clientelism and mismanagement exist. It also looks at the strategies and reforms that are in place for combating such misconduct. Two case studies were used for the purposes of this study, one in DA-controlled Cape Town and the other in ANC-controlled Ekurhuleni. Arising out of these case studies, some generalisations are made about the prospects of controlling such corruption and misadministration at local level. The first part of this inquiry provides a theoretical framework for decentralisation. The main forms of decentralisation, along with its advantages and disadvantages, are discussed. The role of party politics is also examined. The next section traces the history of local government in South Africa and provides an overview of the current system. It looks at the role of the two major political parties in South Africa, namely the African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA), in local government
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Same, Same - But Different. Assessing Alternative Indeces of Democracy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004
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