@article{2015:winkelmann:nur_wenig_,
title = {Nur wenig Veränderung: Die Parlamentswahlen in Südafrika vom 7. Mai 2014},
year = {2015},
note = {The fifth democratic election in South Africa was clearly won by the
African National Con- gress . It received 62 .15 per cent of the votes
and thus won a comfortable majority in the National Assembly . The
liberal and pro-business Democratic Alliance could raise its per-
centage of votes considerably . Its main topics in the election
campaign had been the exist- ing economic and social problems as well
as the endemic corruption in the country . The newly formed Economic
Freedom Fighters obtained 6 .35 per cent of the votes . This party
advocates the nationalisation of certain branches of industry the way
Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela as well as a comprehensive land reform of
the kind that led to disastrous conse- quences in neighbouring
Zimbabwe . The election campaign was not only strongly polar- ised by
these extreme demands, but also by a poor political performance of the
government especially in the fields of fighting poverty and crime .
Furthermore, the South African soci- ety is still strongly divided .
These social and economic disparities refer to a certain extent to the
still vivid past of racial segregation under the former apartheid
regime . [ZParl, vol . 46, no . 1, pp . 166 - 182]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {166--182},
author = {Winkelmann, Thorsten and Noller, Jost F.},
volume = {46},
number = {1}
}