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Book SynopsisExplores various dimensions of internal organizational reform by examining parties from around the South. Several chapters investigate the ANC in South Africa, one of several dominant parties that have begun to lose their shine. Other chapters look at the Chinese Communist Party, the Indian National Congress, and the Workers' Party in Brazil.
Table of ContentsModernising mass parties: The challenge for the ANC. Social democratic politics and policies in developing countries: The case of the Workers' Party in Brazil. Information technology and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party. Factional management: From national liberation to governance in the ANC and INC. Persistent single party dominance: The case of UMNO in Malaysia. Back from the dead? Party organisation and electoral comeback in Mexico's PRI. Hard habit to break? The organisational learning of the Kuomintang in a democratic Taiwan. Party reform and civil service strengthening in South Africa: Deployment in the ANC. Party-to-party relations: The Chinese Communist Party & the ANC. Cooption as a mechanism of survival for the ANC. Reforming the ANC. Electoral policy shifts in the ANC: Community participation, representivity, and local government elections. Towards a new ANC: Political incumbency and the ANC's new wave of renewal and transformation. Renewing the vanguard: Transformation, mobilisation and nostalgia.
