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1 online resource (49 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Summary. -- Introduction. -- Two political settlements. -- Inequality and the demand side of polarization. -- Paths to renewal |
Summary |
Mass political mobilization was pivotal to South Africa's shaking loose the shackles of apartheid--and new calls to the barricades might seem to be the obvious response to current political and governmental dysfunction. However, different times and different challenges call for different responses. In both contemporary South Africa and contemporary America, the frontier challenge is not to overthrow an unjust political order but to renew preexisting formal commitments to the idea that citizenship implies some shared purpose. Renewal of this kind might best be realized not by confrontation but rather by a social movement centered around a vision of shared citizenship, a movement that views cooperation in pursuit of win-win possibilities not as weakness but as the key to the sustainability of thriving, open, and inclusive societies |
Notes |
"April 2022"--Cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-48) |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Carnegie Endowment, viewed May 13, 2022) |
Subject |
Equality -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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Equality -- Social aspects -- United States
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Nation-building -- South Africa
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Nation-building -- United States
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Equality -- Social aspects
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Nation-building
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South Africa
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United States
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Electronic book
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