Abstract
In 1972 Kenneth A. Shepsle and I published a book entitled Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability.2 The object of that book was twofold: first, to develop a formal model of politics in the plural society and, second, to test that model against the historical evidence of eighteen plural societies. In the concluding chapter we proposed a set of theoretically informed prescriptions to cope with the inherent problem of democratic instability in the plural society. The object of this paper is to apply those logically derived prescriptions to contemporary South Africa, to test both their theoretical soundness and political workability.
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