Publisher's Synopsis
An innovative attempt by a formidable team of sociologists, economists, and political scientists to update and extend the debates around the issues of development, democracy, and their interaction. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical approaches to development. The second part investigates how, in contempory South Africa, the institutions of civil society, like civics, NGOs, and trade unions, relate to the central state and to the massive task of upliftment.
