Minority Rule Research Articles

African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule by Richard Gibson New York and London, O.U.P. for Institute of Race Relations, 1972. Pp. x+350. $9.75. £3.50. - Guerrilla Struggle in Africa: an analysis and preview by Kenneth W. Grundy New York, Grossman, 1971. Pp. xx + 204. $4.95.

African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule by Richard Gibson New York and London, O.U.P. for Institute of Race Relations, 1972. Pp. x+350. $9.75. £3.50. - Guerrilla Struggle in Africa: an analysis and preview by Kenneth W. Grundy New York, Grossman, 1971. Pp. xx + 204. $4.95.

Selected Arguments Against United States' Economic Disengagement from South Africa and some Alternative Measures

There is very wide agreement, with which I fully concur, regarding the abhorrent and unacceptable character of apartheid and regarding the inevitable demise of minority rule in South Africa. There is, however, honest disagreement regarding the best way for Americans and others to assist in effecting change. Differing motives for recommending disengagement may also sometimes confuse the issue. Disengagement can reflect such diverse policies as neutralism, non-cooperation, dissociation, intervention, or withdrawal. It can reflect a desire to induce change by positive steps or an acceptance that little can be done, but that the disengager will at least not be implicated or involved in a detested situation. To some it is the isolation of the disengager that is the goal; others appear to be propounding as-full-as-possible isolation of South Africa.

African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule

African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule

The Investment of the American Corporation in Southern Africa

Southern Africa is now witnessing the struggle of the black majority for independence and majority rule. The growing revolt against white minority rule has taken different forms in each country.

The Investment of the American Corporation in Southern Africa

Southern Africa is now witnessing the struggle of the black majority for independence and majority rule. The growing revolt against white minority rule has taken different forms in each country.

African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule

African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule

African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule

African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule

Challenges to Minority Rule in Southern Africa

Contrary to the general impression, the confrontation in southern Africa between minority-controlled regimes and those seeking to overthrow or radically modify their rule is not limited to the boundary line between whiteand African-controlled territories. In fact, the most determined efforts to promote basic change in the so-called white redoubt are taking place inside those territories. Within South Africa and Rhodesia, African nationalist movements operate under severe handicaps and harassment and intimidation that have driven them underground. In Angola and Mozambique, and in Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) in West Africa, in contrast, liberation movements are well entrenched inside their boundaries. Hence the new strategy of African leaders is to make special efforts to secure international support for majority rule in the Portuguese-controlled areas although without slackening their pressures to promote change in Rhodesia and South Africa.

Challenges to Minority Rule in Southern Africa

Challenges to Minority Rule in Southern Africa

Epilogue on Absolute Majority Rule

T HE NOTION THAT DEMOCRACY necessarily implies majority rule continues to pose a most troublesome problem for democratic theorists. It is an uncomfortable problem, the sort that prompts vigorous discussion when it is first brought up, but which leaves its investigators in the final analysis frustrated and up in the air. Democracy, it is argued, surely involves majority rule, but a majority can support persecution and oppression and can bring, and so far as can be determined has brougkt, tyrants to power and can thereafter sustain them in office. But institutional limitations on majority rule do not satisfy either, for they necessarily involve some form of minority rule which is apparently antithetical to democracy. This fundamental puzzle presents itself in many contexts. The problem is by no means one of narrow academic interest, worthy of consideration only as a device with which to befuddle undergraduates in political theory. Clearly, it is a matter of considerable importance so far as the functioning of one of the highest decision-making bodies in American government is concerned. At least one justice of the United States Supreme Court seems to adopt a position of extreme self-restraint because he regards the institution of which he is a part as non-democratic and inherently oligarchic,1 a view which seems to presuppose an majority rule position. The whole question of the ultimate legitimacy of the institution of judicial review is tied very closely to the question of limited vs. absolute majority rule as a feature of democratic government. It is, of course, possible to argue that the institution of judicial review was established on the basis of a proper reading of the language of the Constitution of the United States as Charles L. Black of the Yale Law School has recently done,2 but it is still reasonable to contend that the Constitution is wrong, i.e., undemo-

Minority rule: Challenge to democracy. By George B. Merry. (Reprinted from Christian Science Monitor.) New York 21, National Municipal League, 1958. 8 pp. 50 cents

National Civic ReviewVolume 48, Issue 7 p. 387-387 Book Review Minority rule: Challenge to democracy. By George B. Merry. (Reprinted from Christian Science Monitor.) New York 21, National Municipal League, 1958. 8 pp. 50 cents R. S. C., R. S. C.Search for more papers by this author R. S. C., R. S. C.Search for more papers by this author First published: July 1959 https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.4100480717AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume48, Issue7July 1959Pages 387-387 RelatedInformation

Minority Rule and the Constitutional Tradition

Minority Rule and the Constitutional Tradition

Minority Rule in Cuba

Essay| December 01 1933 Minority Rule in Cuba J. Lloyd Mecham J. Lloyd Mecham Professor of Government, University of Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1933) 39 (3): 344–347. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1933.39.3.344 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. Lloyd Mecham; Minority Rule in Cuba. Current History 1 December 1933; 39 (3): 344–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1933.39.3.344 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1933 by The Regents of the University of California1933 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.