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Comparative Politics
China and South Africa
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 2
04/28/2011

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Dynastic Ruler
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governing system based on hereditary sucession
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What accounted for such amazing persistence?
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1. Regenerative legitimacy

2. Administrative state

3. Confucianism

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Mandate of Heaven
Definition
a particular family is given divine rights to govern, as long as it rules effectively or justly
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Mandarin
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high level scholar officials responsible for administering the state bureaucracy

 

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Meritocracy
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systems in which jobs/positions are awarded on the basis of availability, not connections or family
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Confucianism
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secular set of moral and ethical principles designed to guide the people's personal and social behavior
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Bureaucratization
Definition
stabilize the system, risk revolutionary legitimacy by turning into something you overthrew
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Permanent Revolution
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constantly struggling against status quo, risk chaos
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Reds
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revolutionary idealists, ideological true believers
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Experts
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technocratic pragmatists; administrators, not idealists
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Great Leap Forward
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effort by Mao and party to rapidly modernize China
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How to increase food production
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1. Massive communes

2. Creative agricultural techniques: adoption of farming methods based on ideology, not science

3. Homemade dams

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Consequences of the Great Leap Forward
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1. Catastrophic failure

2. Famine- 15 to 30 million dead

3. Country is in shambles, Mao forced into retirement, experts rebuild

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Cultural Revolution
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anti-establishment campaign designed by Mao and allies to ideologically purify and transform China
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Red Guards
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units of young Chinese who were fanatically devoted to the Mao
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Cult of Personality
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extreme devotion to a single leader rather than the state or law
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Little Red Book
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book of quotes by Mao which served as a ideological foundation of cultural revolution
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Gang of Four
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blamed for disaster and jailed; Mao's closest advisors, including his wife, Jiang Qing; during the Central Revolution
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Crony Capitalism
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allegedly capitalist economy in which success in business depends on ties to government officials
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Current Issues in China
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1) Economic/Ethnic unrest has replaced political protest

2) Capitalism

3) Foreign relations

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Great Trek
Definition
mass migration of Boer's out of British controlled territory in coastal areas into the interior of South Africa
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Boer War
Definition
armed conflict in 1899-1902 between descendants of Dutch settlers and British colonial forces in South Africa
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Scorched Earth Policy
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in 1900, British troops were ordered to burn down every Boer town or farm they came across and destroy all food supplies
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Concentration Camps
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used to break the resistance of Boer commanders; forced women and children inside
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Apartheid
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Afrikaans word for ‘separateness’; a system of institutionalized segregation and domination based on race
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Homelands
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artificial ‘independent’ countries within South Africa of which Blacks were supposedly citizens
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Passbook
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a sort of internal passport in South Africa which restricted the movement and employment of blacks
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Influx control
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measures used to regulate the inflow of black Africans into South Africa's white urban areas during apartheid era
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Township
Definition
specifically designated ghettos far from white areas within which blacks were required to live
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Police State
Definition
vast network of police & military personnel responsible for systematically terrorizing any opposition (real or imagined) to apartheid system. Widespread torture, assassination and, most ominously, cooptation of blacks into the spying network.
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Pan-African Congress
Definition
an ANC rival party also opposed to apartheid
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Nelson Mandela
Definition

1)Founder and de facto leader of the African National Congress, the largest and most prominent anti-apartheid party

2)Imprisoned for 28 years on charges of terrorism

3)In 1994, elected as first post-apartheid President

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constituent assembly
Definition
an elected or appointed assembly chosen to write a new national constitution
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Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Definition
set up to investigate/publicize the crimes of the apartheid regime
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Transitional Justice
Definition
form of dealing with human rights abuses in post-conflict/post-authoritarian societies that seeks to balance desire for punishment with need for reconciliation
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President
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Indirectly elected by majority party in lower house

Can be removed by vote of no confidence, basically a PM

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National Assembly (lower)
Definition
400 seats, split PR electoral system, 1/2 seats from national lists, 1/2 from provincial lists
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Council of Provinces (upper)
Definition
90 seats, 10/province; appointed by provincial legislatures; delegates must vote as single bloc (German style); weaker than lower house except on bills directly affecting provincial affairs
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Constitutional Court
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has judicial review; acts as final interpreter of Constitution
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Bill of Rights
Definition
very extensive bill of rights attached to constitution, with explicit guarantees of rights to vote, equality in law, speech/association, religion, education, housing, and employment
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Negative Rights
Definition
things the state cannot do to you
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Positive Rights
Definition
things the state must do for you
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Federal System
Definition
Nine provinces, each with own legislature, premiers, and provincial constitution
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African National Congress (ANC)
Definition

center of anti-apartheid movement; ideologically left/socialist & increasingly populist; committed to multi-racial democracy, but in practice a nearly all-black party

 

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Democratic Alliance (DA)
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multiracial opposition party, though still largely white support; grew out of historic ‘liberal’ opposition party during apartheid, mostly non-Afrikaner (ie, British) whites; growing quickly
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Congress of the People (COPE)
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created after divisive ANC leadership fight in 2008; more conservative factions split to form new party; willing to join DA in forming government
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Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
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primarily represents Zulu nation, though now attracting some support from other conservative blacks & whites; right/center-right; shrinking in part because current ANC president (Zuma) is Zulu
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