Institutionalizing Elites: Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature

Suzanne Francis,Suzanne Francis

Institutionalizing Elites: Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
23 December 2011
Pages
324
ISBN
9789004219229

Institutionalizing Elites: Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature

Suzanne Francis,Suzanne Francis

In this book, Francis expands and redefines the approach to the problematic of a comprehensive framework for the study of political elites through an interrogation of political elite formation in the African context of the Provincial Legislature of KwaZulu-Natal. The result is an empirically rich and detailed study of the realization, accumulation and exercise of institutionalized political power. Political elite agency shapes, enables and undermines political institutions and is dependent on a multiplicity of currencies including social and political capital and patterns of culture, respect and institutional capacity. Studies of political elites must now consider not whether elite values, attitudes and patterns of political etiquette penetrate political institutions, but rather how they do so.

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