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Research Articles (Political Sciences): Recent submissions
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(Stellenbosch University, 2024-06)The digitisation of education that has deliberately reformed the pedagogical practices of tertiary education in the 21st century, rapidly transformed all aspects of academia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic conferences, ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-06)The eMalahleni Local Municipality (eLM) in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, has a number of informal settlements because of the influx of people seeking employment in the municipal area. These informal settlements are ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Collective security by regional organisations continues to be impacted by evolving global security threats. Previously focused at the global level, the shift from interstate conflicts to intra-state conflicts resulted in ...
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(Wiley, 2024)In 2015 the German government acknowledged that the Empire committed genocide in its colony South West Africa, known since its independence as Namibia. This acknowledgement marked a new reference point in how to engage ...
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(Policy Press, 2024)This study aimed to assess the implementation of the KwaZulu-Natal 365 Days Policy Framework for the Eradication of Gender-Based Violence, particularly the Victim Support Programme, in the minority Indian community in ...
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(Emerald, 2024-07)PURPOSE : Most African countries operate large government sizes but with little corresponding economic outcomes. Institutional economics however, show that strong institution is fundamental in promoting economic growth. ...
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(University Association for Contemporary European Studies, 2023)African universities rely on teaching traditions and scientific theories based on Western epistemologies and ontologies. Interactions between European and African scholars too tend to focus on the deficits in African ...
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(UACES, 2023)This Special Issue is the culmination of the Diversity, Inclusivity, Multi-Disciplinarity in European Studies (DIMES) project, undertaken under the aegis of the University Association of European Studies (UACES). DIMES was ...
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(Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2023-12)The COVID-19 pandemic, which has been primarily analysed within urban contexts, has revealed a significant gap in understanding its ramifications within rural areas. This study aims to address this gap by drawing upon the ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2023-12)Former national liberation movements (NLMs) in government deserve to be studied on their own and not simply treated as a component of a country’s democracy. Wherever they have managed to seize political power and control ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2023-12)The historic defeat of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) in the March 2008 harmonised elections was followed by the unleashing of a violent campaign against the opposition in the run up to the ...
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(Unisa Press and Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)Post-apartheid South Africa’s liberation historiography has been constructed and curated in a manner that influences public and collective memory to assume that only one specific liberation movement (the African National ...
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(Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, 2023-09)Questions have abounded as to what Burundi’s motives and interests have been in sending troops and spearheading the intervention in the eastern DRC. With reference to the case of Burundi’s intervention within the framework ...
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(Springer, 2023-06)West African borderlands still depict free labour migration that weaves a complex grid of relations and inter-dependences over the ‘artificial’ borders inherited from colonialism. Migrants consider the sub-region as a ...
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(Routledge, 2024)On 4 February 2024, Namibia’s President Hage Geingob lost his short battle with cancer. His second five-year term in office would have ended on 21 March 2024. Following Sam Nujoma (1990–2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba ...
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(Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, 2022-06)This article explores the judicialisation of party primaries in contemporary Nigeria, which is a defining feature of the country’s electoral politics. Since the inception of the Fourth Republic, the lack of internal democracy ...
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(Routledge, 2024)The ethnicisation of election and the concomitant diffusion of violence has been widely explored in the literature on Kenyan presidential elections. However, the critical character of the elections has been understudied, ...
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(Wiley, 2024-05)The shifting nature of contemporary global politics highlights the growing contestation about power and how it is distributed, with multipolarity as its hallmark and distinguishing feature. Amid the shift to multipolarity, ...
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(Routledge, 2023)The colonial disruption of organic state formation in Africa through the imposition of an alien state system adversely influenced state-building in the continent with consequences for good governance, belonging, and ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)This research joins people-centered approaches to development in understanding how social relationships are integrated into the efficacy of human development organizations in South Africa during a crisis. It positions ...
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