South African electoral trends: prospects for coalition governance at national and provincial spheres in 2024

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politikon Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/02589346.2022.2151682

Ayabulela Dlakavu

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The 2021 local government elections (LGE) in the Republic of South Africa once again delivered hung metropolitan municipalities – a phenomenon that became common following the 2016 LGE results. The City of Cape Town is, however, a metropolitan municipality that has experienced coalition governance since the early 2000s, while the rest of South Africa's metropolitan municipalities were governed by the ruling African National Congress from 1994 to 2016. The 2021 LGE delivered coalition governments across the majority of metropolitan councils, namely: City of Tshwane (the capital), City of Johannesburg (Africa's economic hub), Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, City of Ethekwini, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. This paper provides a conceptualisation of 'coalition governance and politics', and key characteristics of this phenomenon in South Africa and globally. Conceptual and operational understandings of coalitions is crucial given their increasing prevalence in South Africa. Areas of cooperation, compromise, consensus and divergence among the prospective coalition partners in South Africa are also examined in the article (based on political party electoral performance trends, political ideology, policy preferences and leadership personalities and qualities). Such factors are important because they determine the likely feasibility, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of coalition governments.

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南非选举趋势:2024年国家和省级联合治理的前景

南非共和国2021年地方政府选举(LGE)再次产生了悬空大都市，这一现象在2016年地方政府选举结果之后变得普遍。然而，自21世纪初以来，开普敦市是一个大都会市，经历了联合治理，而南非其他大都市市从1994年到2016年由执政的非洲人国民大会管理。2021年大选产生了大多数城市议会的联合政府，即:茨瓦内市(首都)、约翰内斯堡市(非洲经济中心)、埃库胡莱尼市、埃德夸尼市和纳尔逊·曼德拉湾市。本文提供了“联合治理和政治”的概念，以及这种现象在南非和全球的关键特征。鉴于联盟在南非日益普遍，对联盟的概念和业务理解至关重要。文章还审查了南非未来联盟伙伴之间的合作、妥协、共识和分歧领域(根据政党选举表现趋势、政治意识形态、政策偏好和领导个性和素质)。这些因素很重要，因为它们决定了联合政府的可行性、效率、有效性和可持续性。

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Politikon POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.90

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32 weeks

期刊介绍： Politikon focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world" leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa"s leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa"s constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999.