- Title
- Across developmental state and social compacting: the peculiar case of South Africa
- Title
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2016/1
- Creator
- Fine, Ben
- Subject
- Economic development -- South Africa South Africa -- Economic conditions National Development Plan -- South Africa South Africa -- Social policy Economic development -- Political aspects -- South Africa
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3082
- Identifier
- vital:20367
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780868106090
- Description
- This paper is concerned with the shifting fortunes of the Developmental State Paradigm (DSP) and the Social Compacting Paradigm (SCP) and, with some reference to South Africa, how they do or do not have continuing presence and relevance. For each, there is a dual trajectory in terms of an evolving intellectual content, on the one hand, and an evolving set of global and national circumstances on the other. I show that both paradigms have increasingly diverged from the material realities that they are intended to confront. This is primarily because of the neglect of financialisation as the key characteristic of the past thirty years, which itself underpins neo-liberalism. Whilst, in the post-war boom, both developmentalism and neo-corporatism offered some purchase on material realities and the prospects for policymaking, this has been eroded or, more exactly, transformed by financialisation. Unless the latter is satisfactorily addressed, neither development nor compacting can be expected to succeed, or be progressive, in any meaningful sense.
- Format
- 30 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2016/1, Working Paper Series: Social Policy and Labour
- Rights
- Fine, Ben
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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