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 B. Horwitz
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 09, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 430 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521791669
- | ISBN-13: 9780521791663
