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Communication and democratic reform in South Africa /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication and democratic reform in South Africa // Robert B. Horwitz.
remainder title:	Communication & Democratic Reform in South Africa
Author:	Horwitz, Robert Britt,
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 409 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Communication policy - South Africa. -
Subject:	South Africa - Politics and government - 1994- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510151
ISBN:	9780511510151 (ebook)

Communication and democratic reform in South Africa /
Horwitz, Robert Britt,

Communication and democratic reform in South Africa /Communication & Democratic Reform in South AfricaRobert B. Horwitz. - 1 online resource (xx, 409 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Communication, society and politics. - Communication, society and politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction and Overview --1.

The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - 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. In the cautious acceptance of the market, the civil society organizations sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities. Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was navigated between the National Party's embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation.

ISBN: 9780511510151 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1446133
Communication policy
--South Africa.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

798951
South Africa
--Politics and government--1994-

LC Class. No.: P95.82.S6 / H67 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 302.2/0968

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