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Power in action

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Power in action

By Steven Friedman

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Argues against the stereotype that the goal of new democracies, such as South Africa and other developing nation-states, is to become like the global North, and asserts that democracies can only work when every person has an equal say in the public decisions that affect them.

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9781776143023

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Wits University Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Power in action

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