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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Preface. South Africa's Complex Party System after the 2016 Local Government Elections -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 - Whither the ANC's Dominance? Waning Electoral Dominance, Rising Hegemonic Dominance -- INTRODUCTION -- LEVELS OF DOMINANCE -- GROWING OPPOSITION -- POOR GOVERNANCE, RISING HEGEMONIC DOMINANCE AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS -- PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF POOR PERFORMANCE -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 2 - The Need to Reform the Electoral System in South Africa. A Constitutional Engineering Perspective -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TRUSTEE THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- THE CONSTITUENCY DELEGATE THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- THE PARTY MANDATE THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- THE RESEMBLANCE THEORY OF REPRESENTATION -- SOME COMMENTS ON THE PRESENT CLOSED PARTY LIST PR SYSTEM -- THE SLABBERT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO SOUTH AFRICA'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGES TO BE MADE TO THE PRESENT SYSTEM -- WHAT ABOUT PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES? -- ELECTORAL ENGINEERING: LIMITS -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 3 - Women, the Electoral System and Political Parties -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION AND THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM -- PARTY STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING FEMALE REPRESENTATIVES -- EQUALITY RHETORIC -- PROMOTING EQUALITY -- EQUALITY GUARANTEES -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 4 - Political Parties and Political Leadership. Sewing Reconciliation or Division? -- THE BROAD CONTEXT -- GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT AND ITS EFFECT ON ELECTIONS -- TONY LEON: REINVENTING THE DP, CREATING THE DA AND CAPTURING WHITE SUPPORT -- MANAGING THE ANC'S OMNIBUS: THABO MBEKI AND JACOB ZUMA -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 5 - Do Political Parties Still Shift Public Opinion? -- THE RISE AND FALL - AND FALL … - OF POLITICAL PARTIES.

In October 2016, the University of Pretoria, in association with Brand South Africa, hosted the first Nation Brand University Dialogue. For most participants, this was a rare opportunity to interrogate the need for a nation brand, assess the factors that shape it, examine the reciprocal effect between nation branding and the policy environment, and consider its potential limitations. From the ten presentations and extended panel discussion presented during the Dialogue, we chose to include five in this special focus because each reviewed a specific strategic aspect of nation branding.Branding as a concept is often restricted to the world of business and the marketing of products and services. But while promoting a nation's brand does rely on marketing tactics, the political scientists studying branding acknowledge that its purpose is far broader. From a strategic perspective, nation branding seeks to grow a positive predisposition towards a country's principles, policies and products, which, in turn, is used to leverage a nation's soft power authority to advocate forspecific objectives in the world's centres of power.