Overview
The book examines the reform of the communications sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in 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.
- | Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 432 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521030978
- | ISBN-13: 9780521030977
