Institutionalizing Elites
Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial
Legislature
Suzanne Francis
Leiden: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum Series; vol. 23, 2011.
ISBN 978-90-04-21922-0
In this book, Francis expands and redefines the approach to the problematic
of a comprehensive framework for the study of political elites through an
interrogation of political elite formation in the African context of the
Provincial Legislature of KwaZulu-Natal. The result is an empirically rich
and detailed study of the realization, accumulation and exercise of
institutionalized political power. Political elite agency shapes, enables
and undermines political institutions and is dependent on a multiplicity of
currencies including social and political capital and patterns of culture,
respect and institutional capacity. Studies of political elites must now
consider not whether elite values, attitudes and patterns of political
etiquette penetrate political institutions, but rather how they do so.
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