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Research & Publications : Professor Tom LodgeTom Lodge is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He obtained a BA, B Phil and Ph D from the University of York. Before his arrival in Limerick in 2005 he was Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has also held positions at the University of York, the Social Science Research Council in New York, and the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa. In 1999 – 2000 he was Chair of the Africa Institute in Pretoria and between 2004 and 2005 he served on the Research Assessment Executive Evaluation Committee of the National Research Foundation in Pretoria. He is the author of five books and two edited volumes. They include Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (Longman, 1993) and Politics in South Africa From Mandela to Mbeki (University of Indiana Press, 2002). A sixth book, Nelson Mandela: A Critical Biography, will be published by Oxford University Press in July 2006. His publications also include 60 journal articles and chapters in edited collections. Current writing projects: a short text on political corruption and a general survey of African contemporary history. General research interests: African political parties, democratisation, post conflict politics, late development, political corruption.
Book:- 2002 Politics in South Africa From Mandela to Mbeki, Johannesburg, David Philip, Oxford, James Currey and Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, pp. 314. - 2006 Nelson Mandela: A Critical Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 270 (forthcoming; publication date 27 July 2006).
Refereed Journal Articles.- 2001 “The South African Local Government Elections”, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 28 (1), pp. 21-46.* - 2001 “The Namibian Elections of 1999", Democratization (London), 8 (2), pp. 191-230.* - 2001 “How political parties finance electoral campaigning in South Africa”, Journal of African Elections (Johannesburg), 1 (1), pp. 53-60. - 2001 “Countering Public Corruption in South Africa”, Transformation (Durban), 46 (2001), pp 53-70.* - 2003 “Voter abstention in the South African General Election of 1999”. Representation (London), 39, 2, pp. 105-113.* - 2003 “How the South African Electoral System was Negotiated”, Journal of African Elections, 2, 1, pp 71-76. - 2004 “The ANC and the development of party politics in modern South Africa”, Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 42, 2, 2004, pp. 189-219. - 2004 “The ANC after the 2004 elections”, Journal of African Elections, 3, 2, pp. 166-174. - 2005 “Provincial government and state authority in South Africa”, Journal of Southern African Studies (Oxford), 31, 4, 2005. - 2006 “Is there a stable party system in South Africa?”, Journal of Democracy (Washington), 17, 3, July 2006 (accepted, revised, corrected, and proofed).
Edited Book(co-edited with Denis Kadima and David Pottie, Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, 2002.
Book Chapters.
- 2000 “Nelson Mandela: political saint in a new democracy” in Geoff Cubitt and Allen Warren (ed.), Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives, Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 242-264. - 2002 “Political Corruption in South Africa: Corruption in a post-Apartheid state” in Arnold Heidenheimer and Michael Johnson (eds.), Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts, Transaction Books, New Jersey, pp. 403-424. - 2002 “Chapter 10: South Africa’ in Tom Lodge, Denis Kadima and David Pottie, Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa, Electoral institute of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, pp. 291-317. - 2003 “Introduction” in The Writings of Ekra Agiman (Joseph Casely-Hayford), Thoemmes Press, Bristol, pp. v-xvi. - 2003 “South Africa”, Chapter 14 in Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Third Edition, Houghton Mifflin, New York, pp. 674-733. - 2004 “Introduction”, The Writings of John Mensah Sarbah, Thoemnes Press, Bristol, pp v-xii. - 2005 “The African National Congress: There is no party like it”, Jessica Piombo and Lia Nijzink (eds.), Electoral Politics in South Africa: Assessing the First Democratic Decade, Basingstoke and New york, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-128. - 2005 “Introduction”, Baruch Hirson, History of the Left in South Africa: Writings of Baruch Hirson, London, I B Tauris, pp. iii-xi. - 2005 “Political studies in South Africa: a personal perspective”, Gerrit Schutte and Harry Wels (eds.), The Vrije Universiteit and South Africa, Rozenburg Publishers, Amsterdam, 105-114.
Volumes of Collected Conference and Seminar Papers
- 2000 “How political parties finance electoral campaigning in Southern Africa” in In Pursuit of Electoral Norms and Standards, Southern African Elections Forum Conference Report, Windhoek, 11-14 June 2000, pp. 145-150. - 2000 “Implications of current and potential electoral options for diversity and representation” in The Future of South Africa’s Constituency System, Conference report for workshop held in Rietvleidam, 5 July 2000, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Johannesburg, pp. 25-26. - 2000 “Keynote Address” in Reuben Musiker (ed), Indexing our Heritage, Papers read at a Conference held in Johannesburg on 6th September 2000, Associationof South African Indexers and Bibliographers, Johannesburg 2000, pp. 1-3. - 2003 “Electoral options and core values: a summary”, Electoral Task team Review Round Table, Electoral Models for South Africa, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Johannesburg 2003, pp. 41-44.
Contributions to Reference Books:
– 2003, “Southern Africa”, Global Corruption Report, 2003, Transparency International, Berlin, 2003, pp. 248-259. - 2005 “Pretoria” and “Angola, revolts, 1961” in Kevin Shillington (ed), Encyclopedia of African History, Routledge, London, 2005.
Book Reviews.- Review of Daryl Glaser, Politics and Society in South Africa, Political Studies, 50, 5, 2003 - Review of Pierre du Toit, South Africa’s Brittle Peace: the problem of Post-settlement Violence, Politikon, 31, 2, 2004. - Review of James Gibson, Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?, Politikon, 32, 1, 2005. - Review of SADET, The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume One, South African Historical Journal, 50, 2004. - Review of James Barber, Mandela’s World, African Affairs, 104, pp. 160-162
Miscellaneous: Reports and Handbooks.
- 2000 A Handbook of Zimbabwe Electoral Laws and Regulations, EISA, Johannesburg, 2000, pp. 34. - 2000 The Namibia Elections Report, December 1999, The Electoral Commission Forum of SADC Countries, EISA, Johannesburg, 1999, pp. 55. - 2000 (Co-author with Louise Olivier and Anton Venter), Handbook on Legislation and Regulations for South Africa’s Local Government Elections, Independent Electoral Commission and the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, Pretoria and Johannesburg, 2000, pp. 68. - 2000 “Electoral institutions and procedures: principles and practices in the SADC region” in Gwen Ansell and Ahmed Veriava, Human Rights Handbook for Southern African Communicators, Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, pp. 84-87. - 2000 (with A H Senguji), A Handbook of Tanzanian Electoral Laws and Regulations, National Electoral Commission, Dar es Salaam, pp. 146. - 2002 (with Tim Sisk and Wendy Marshall), South Africa 2002: A Conflict Assessment, Office of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, pp. 78. - 2003 Handbook on Electoral Legislation and Regulations for Mozambique’s 2003 Municipal Government Elections, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, pp. 140.
Conference and Seminar Papers
- “Party Politics: African National Congress”, Meridian Centre Workshop on South Africa: Future of Democratization, Washington, DC, 5 April 2001. - “Writing the h - “Political parties, civil rights movements and racism in South Africa”, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Conference on Racism and Public Policy, 3-5 September 2001, Durban, South Africa. - “The ANC and the development of Party Politics in Modern South Africa”, African Studies Seminar, African Studies Seminar, Leiden, 9 January 2003. - “Political Studies in South Africa”, Conference on The Relationship between the Vrije Universiteit and South Africa, Vrije University Arts Faculty and SAVUSA, Amsterdam, 29 October 2004. - “Quiet Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: a case study of South Africa in Africa”, African Studies Seminar, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 27 October, 2004.
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