Browsing by Author "Tapscott, Chris"
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Between supply and demand: the limits to participatory development in South Africa
Tapscott, Chris; Thompson, Lisa (SAGE, 2013)Much of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused ... -
Dynamics of building a better society: Reflections on ten years of development cooperation and capacity building
Tapscott, Chris; Slembrouck, Stef; Pokpas, Larry; Ridge, Elaine; Ridge, Stan (SUN Media, 2014)The modern world is an environment of rapid change. Per Dalin points out that we are experiencing an unprecedented ten revolutions occurring simultaneously. There are revolutions prompted by globalisation and the population ... -
An exploration of the concept of community and its impact on participatory governance policy and service delivery in poor areas of Cape Town, South Africa
Thompson, Lisa; Tapscott, Chris; De Wet, Pamela Tsolekile (Taylor & Francis, 2018)The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation ... -
Overcoming the past and shaping the future: The quest for relevance in teaching and researching public administration in Africa
Tapscott, Chris (Springer, 2021)The status of teaching and research on public administration in Africa countries, in many respects, remains a vestige of the colonial era and this is reflected in the epistemologies that underpin the design of the curricula ... -
Reconsidering the origins of protest in South Africa: some lessons from Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg
Nleya, Ndodana; Tapscott, Chris; Thompson, Lisa; Piper, Laurence; Esau, Michelle (Unisa Press, 2011)Protest politics in South Africa has a long history and has been deployed differentially in different historical moments. Whereas protests formed an important vehicle during the fight against apartheid, their rebirth and ...