Wabantu Hlophe

Losing the Liberation? Democratic Erosion in South Africa by Wabantu Hlophe @ Yale University

Since the transition to full democracy in 1994, South Africa has experienced limited democratic erosion, driven by extreme racial inequality, outsized policy influence from the private sector and...

Municipal Government in New Haven by Wabantu Hlophe @ Yale University

Yale University

When trying to understand what drives democratic erosion, complacency by politicians at the grassroots is often ignored; a worrisome omission, to say the least. Here, we turn our attention to the...