| | For Donald Horowitz, the key to understanding South Africa is that it is 'a racially and ethnically divided society' . So the central concern of A Democratic South Africa? is how to engineer democracy by building incentives for candidates and political parties to create interests across racial and ethnic group lines. Drawing on extensive comparative examples, Horowitz advocates certain constitutional designs around the electoral system, presidentialism and federalism that would provide racially or ethnically based parties with incentives 'to dilute the exclusivity of their appeals' and which would not compromise the principle that 'every vote should count for one and none should count for more than one' . Horowitz is 'one of the worlds foremost experts on ethnicity' and this work has, to date, received some favourable reviews. Heribert Adam, for example, sees it as 'one of the most sophisticated accounts of the current debates' . |
