Publications

The Centre aims to generate academic research in the areas of citizenship, participation, development and democracy. As part of this initiative, occasional monographs and working papers are published. A Monograph entitled Participatory Governance? Citizens and the State in South Africa edited by Lisa Thompson was released in September 2007. The monograph contains chapters distilling out essential policy messages of their DRC research by each of the members of the team. The monograph has been distributed widely in government and to all major national and international libraries. The monograph is available free of charge on this website. Click on publications available for downloading. Professor Thompson and Professor Chris Tapscott have editing a collection of case studies on social activism and participation in the South. Entitled, Citizenship, Mobilisation and Social Movements in the South: The challenges of Inclusive Governance? The book forms a major part of the Centre’s ongoing research involvement within the DRC at Sussex University. The book contains chapters from many of the DRC partners in the South. A short description of the book is available for downloading. Click on Publications available for downloading. A number of occasional papers and working documents are available from ACCEDE. The book was launched by ACCEDE in August 2010 at the University of the western Cape.Click on Publications available for downloading.

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Enhancing citizen participation through civic action in Zimbabwe
Jephias Mapuva

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Development trustees, not rent-seeking deployees
Laurence Piper

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Citizen agency in Khayelitsha
Lisa Thompson, Ina Conradie & Pamela Tsolekile

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Gendered subjects, gendered citizens
Ranjita Mohanty

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Assessing the link between citizen participation and democratic development policies
Mwesigye Edgar Kateshumbwa

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Citizen reportback in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town A Score Card Report
Michelle Esau and Ndodana Nleya

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Governance and service delivery score card in Delft Cape Town 2011 A score card report
Lisa Thompson, Ndodana Nleya and Cherrel Africa

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Citizen reportback in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg A Score Card Report
L Piper and Ndodana Nleya

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Citizen reportback in Khayelitsha, Cape Town A Score Card Report
Lisa Thompson and Ndodana Nleya

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Citizen reportback in Khayelitsha, Cape Town A Score Card Report
Chris Tapscott and Ndodana Nle

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Governance and service delivery score card in Langa Cape Town 2011
Lisa Thompson, Ndodana Nleya and Cherrel Africa

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Citizen reportback in Prestbury, Pietermaritzburg A Score Card Report
Laurence Piper and Ndodana Nleya

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International Conference on Citizen Leadership and Democratic Accountability 30 November – 1 December 2009 PRIA is an International Centre for Learning and Promotion of Participation Democratic Governance and New Delhi, India Conference Proceedings
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Democracy, social capital and trust relations in local government in South Africa
Chris Tapscott

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Migrants and water service delivery
Lisa Thompson Thobani Matheza

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Understanding good governance and democracy in the context of poverty alleviation
Michelle Esau

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From poverty to power?
Lisa Thompson & Ina Conradie

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Citizenship in Msunduzi
Laurence Piper

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Participatory Governance?
Citizens and the State in South Africa
Edited by Lisa Thompson
African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

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Democracy, social capital and trust relations
in local government in South Africa
Chris Tapscott

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Migrants & water service delivery
in the Western Cape:
A gendered analysis
Lisa Thompson & Thobani Matheza

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Understanding good governance & democracy
in the context of poverty alleviation
Michelle Esau

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Municipal procurement and the poor
A study of three municipalities in the Western Cape Province
Abdullah Bayat, Amiena Bayat, Zunaid Moolla

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Community Development Workers
as advocacy planners in South Africa?
John Williams

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Deepening democracy through local participation
Michelle Esau

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Social capital
A brief overview
Abdullah Bayat

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States of Mobilisation?
Edited by Ranjita Mohanty, Lisa Thompson
and Vera Schattan Coelho

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Community Activism and Protest in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Lisa Thompson and Ndodana Nleya

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