Browsing Research articles (Dept of PAS) by Issue Date
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Widening the frontiers of democracy: towards a transformative agenda in Botswana politics
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2000)This article is about the struggles of Batswana women to attain gender equality. The article traces women's exclusion from public decision-making much broadly as a fundamental feature of the Tswana patriachal structure. ... -
Understanding government and opposition parties in Botswana
(Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com, 2000)This paper discusses the relationship between the ruling party and opposition parties in the struggle to capture political power in Botswana. It demonstrates the resilience of the multi-party framework that is founded on ... -
In search of an alternative electoral system for Botswana
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2000)Electoral systems are manipulative instruments that determine how elections are won and lost. Botswana is widely regarded as a frontrunner in democratic politics, but the electoral system that it operates has been wanting ... -
Democracy under siege: the Presidency and executive powers in Botswana
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2000)This article outlines that the Constitution of Botswana provides for an executive presidency with extensive powers. Unlike other constitutions in the region where power is vested with the people, in Botswana it is vested ... -
Declining voter participation in Botswana: trends and patterns
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2000)This article attempts to analyse the trends and patterns relating to the past eight general elections in Botswana, from the pre-independence period in 1965 to 1999. Factors that have influenced elections in the last eight ... -
Corruption and its control in Botswana
(Botswana Society, 2003)Botswana is widely perceived as a succesful working democracy in Africa. What is striking about Botswana is that one party dominance over the past 36 years has not led to a proliferation of corruption as it did in most ... -
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade regime: Opportunities and challenges for Botswana
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2003)For a long time now, African countries have been demanding increased trade with the developed economies of the West as a means to promote economic development. 'Trade not aid,' has become the hallmark of this demand. ... -
The politics of poverty in Botswana
(Botswana Society, www.botsoc.org.bw, 2003)For many years, Botswana has achieved both a fast growing economy and worsening inequalities. 'Botswana's annual growth in real GDP had averaged 10.9 percent in the period 1981-90, faster even than the east Asian Tigers ... -
Privatisation in Botswana: the demise of a developmental state?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. www.wiley.com, 2008)This article argues that efforts by the Government of Botswana to embark on privatisation of some parastatals as well as contracting out the provision of certain services with the main intention of enhancing productivity ... -
State culture, building and renewing the Botswana developmental state
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2008)The post-colonial Botswana elite built a developmental state.The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) inherited a developmental state-promoting state culture, which it used to modernise state institutions, to focus on creating ... -
Vission 2016 and reforming the intelligence in Botswana
(The Botswana Society, 2008)The Botswana government proposed to the national parliament the setting up of an enlarged intelligence agency known as the Directorate of Intelligence and Security. It drafted and published in the Government Gazette, an ... -
Patronage and corruption under the National Party and African National Congress governments in South Africa, 1948-2000
(University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw, 2008)This article argues that despite a change in government in 1994, there are continuities and parallels between the politics of patronage and political corruption under the apartheid National Party and African National ... -
Local governance
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)This chapter looks at local governance in the context of the national integrity system. Local councils provide local services and incur financial expenses within the statutory framework set by the central government. The ... -
Independent Electoral Commission
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)Botswana has since 1965 held nine successive multi-party elections, making it Africa's longest running democracy. Although elections are high tension events, they have not sparked violence in Botswana- a rare feature in ... -
Supreme audit institution
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)This chapter assesses the effectiveness of the Office of the Auditor General as a key pillar of the national integrity system in Botswana. It gives an overview of the laws and rules governing the establishment and operation ... -
Political parties
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)This chapter discusses the national integrity system of political parties. In assessing the viability and integrity of political parties, the purpose of their existence needs to be established and analysed. The building ... -
The business sector
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)This chapter reviews Botswana's integrity mechanisms within the business sector. It examines the role of the state owned businesses, by far the majority in Botswana,as well as the emerging privately owned business sector. ... -
Persistence and decline of traditional authority in modern Botswana politics
(Botswana Society, www.botsoc.org.bw, 2008)This paper explores the role traditional authorities have played in post-independence Botswana and their likely future impact. Three overarching themes run through the analysis. First, this illiberal institution is ... -
Comparative analysis of teachers’ perception of equity, pay satisfaction, affective commitment and intention to turnover in Botswana
(Macrothink Institute, en.macrothink.org/, 2010)The purpose of the paper was to investigate the relationships between equity, pay satisfaction, affective commitment and intention to turnover among junior and senior secondary school teachers in Botswana. A total of 232 ... -
Developmental states: their historical absence and their emergence in post conflict Southern Africa
(Bentham Open, https://www.linkedin.com/company/benthamopen, 2010)Did Southern African states have the developmental focus to make their countries rich? My hypothesis is that a ordered in a certain way. My argument is that most Southern African states were historically not properly ...