Politikon

Papers
(The median citation count of Politikon is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emerging trends in social policy from the south13
Democracy, development and the ecological crisis in Africa10
Accountability in Global Governance: Pluralist Accountability in Global Governance10
DIY urbanism in Africa: politics and practice9
South African local government at crossroads8
The disruption of the white spatial imaginary in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow8
Between Samir Amin and Claude Ake: towards a roadmap for Africa’s development8
Decolonizing grand theories: postcolonial ontology, historical sociology and mid-level theories in international relations8
EU sanctions on Zimbabwe: rethinking Africa’s economic and political security in the global age7
South Africa’s protest tactics: evolution and expansion6
A Subjective Approach to International Relations: The Battle for Meaning5
Reading Mahmood Mamdani in a Decolonizing World. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today4
How Electoral Integrity Matters in an Era of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Experience from Ghana’s Eighth General Election4
The emerging BRICS financial architecture: a catalyst for global governance reform?4
Egoism of the national bourgeoisie: exploring political party formation, ego politics and the challenge of governance in South Africa4
ECOWAS – WAEMU dichotomy: challenges for regional integration and intra-regional trade in West Africa3
ECOWAS Socio-cultural exchange protocol and French language development: implications on intra-regional integration in West Africa3
The brick in the ballot box: the relative influence of democratic discontent and identity politics in the 2024 elections in South Africa2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria2
Remembering Lumumba's dismembered body-polity through Amin2
Post-apartheid state business relations in Johannesburg: a sub-national perspective on the 21st Century developmental state2
‘Judicialization of corruption’ in Ghana: an analysis of how Ghanaians view the Office of the Special Prosecutor2
Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa2
Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa2
Correction2
The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa2
Allocation of public goods, ethnic favouritism and the risk of local ethnic wars in sub-Saharan Africa2
50 Years of ECOWAS existence without food sovereignty: a route not taken2
An old wine in a new bottle? Towards an alternative theoretical approach to AfCFTA's institutional autonomy and private-sector-driven cross-border business integration1
Great powers in Africa: the US and China’s rival interests in Ethiopia1
Maxi Schoeman – An Appreciation1
Rawlsian ubuntucracy and the prospect for a political philosophy for failed African states1
Laundering racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa1
The effects of the perception of corruption on public trust in government in Africa: a comparative analysis1
The African Three (A3) at the UN Security Council: Translating Agency into Influence?1
‘Biafra is made in heaven’: exploring the religious framing of the neo-Biafra secessionist movement in Nigeria1
Fake news and Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election1
South Africa’s dwindling developmental local government: a dying dream?1
Situating Afghanistan in China's GDI-BRI matrix: Taliban rule, Chinese ambitions, and the regeography of development1
African possibilities: a matriarchitarian perspective for social justice1
Black Cultural Life in South Africa: Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics1
Autocratic resurgence, ECOWAS interventions and geopolitical entanglements in West Africa1
An exercise in electoral integrity: reviewing the role of the IEC in the 2024 national and provincial elections1
Internal under-development in Africa and Amin’s delinking theory: Dangote, Dos Santos and Motsepe1
Hesitancy to participate in South African local government elections – rural voter’s perspective1
AI-driven border surveillance in ECOWAS: implications for migrants’ rights and data privacy in the age of cyber sovereignty1
Protests as a form of electioneering? A comparative study of the 2016 and 2021 local government elections protests in Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal1
Terrorism, religious fundamentalism and the challenge of (under)development in Nigeria: an existentialist intervention1
Editorial0
Antagonistic politics and coalitions: South Africa’s local to national landscape0
Leadership for transformation since the dawn of South Africa's democracy. An insider's view0
The nexus of political regime and income inequality in South Africa: a complex interplay0
South Africa’s protest architecture: foundations, scaffolding and pillars of collective action0
Beyond traditional models: a focus on alternate pathways for managing Africa’s sovereign debt0
Beyond the binary: examining dynamic youth voter behaviour in South Africa0
‘Violent protests’ in South Africa: understanding service delivery protests0
Scientific solidarity as response to Africa’s pandemic populism0
Public policy in democratic backsliding: how illiberal populists engage with the policy process0
Haunted and haunting statues: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, post-apartheid rainbowism, and the statue of Nelson Mandela at Cape Town City Hall0
Service delivery, moral political capital and democratic legitimacy: a case study of Langa and Wentworth, South Africa0
Combatants in African conflicts, professionals, praetorians, militias, insurgents and mercenaries0
Race, Culture and Mental Illness in the International Criminal Court’s Ongwen Judgment: Biases and Blindspots0
Youth disillusionment and the legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS at 50: a region that forgot its future?0
Governing Through Turbulent Coalitions: Will ActionSA Bring Stability to Gauteng Metropolitan Municipalities?0
An Agenda with no gender: 2021 local government elections and patriarchal domination in South African politics0
Party Politics and Public Goods in a Racially Divided Space: A Study of Community Policing in Hout Bay, South Africa0
Re-imagining feminist thought from the prism of decoloniality: towards a decolonial relational feminism0
‘Too many parties and still counting’: in defense of multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe0
Amin’s progressive internationalism0
Convenience or complementarity: the African Union’s partnership with the United Nations in Sudan and South Sudan0
Suturing the wound(s) of apartheid0
Political Settlements Analysis of Natural Resource Governance in Botswana0
South African electoral trends: prospects for coalition governance at national and provincial spheres in 20240
Beyond the debate: decolonisation, decoloniality and the reframing of development in Africa0
Realism in international relations: The making of a disarrayed tradition0
Troping the South African truth and reconciliation commission in narrative film0
Political biography, memory, and the politics of conservation0
The African Union at 20, African Perspectives on Progress, Challenges and Prospects The African Union at 20 , African Perspectives on Progress, Challenges0
The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo, 1955-19910
Fighting global neo-extractivism: fossil-free social movements in South Africa0
‘Nothing has changed, South Africa’s sub-imperialist role has been reinforced’: Samir Amin’s durable critique of apartheid/post-apartheid political economy0
The Impact of international migration on South Africa as a developing economy0
Guerrillas and combative mothers: women and armed struggles in South Africa0
ECOWAS and inverted sacrifice zones: towards a new regional paradigm for sovereignty and sustainability in West Africa0
Introducing digitalisation to strengthen evaluation systems for democracy in African parliaments0
Nigeria Democracy Without Development: How to fix it0
South Africa enters the second wave of xenophobic violence: the rise of anti-immigrant organisations in South Africa0
ECOWAS At 50: a compendium of five decades of regional integration and security in West Africa0
Coalition or Government of National Unity? Critical reflections on the 2024 elections in South Africa0
Are South African political parties thinking about the future in local governance? Assessing the 2021 LGE manifestos for responses to technological, climate and demographic changes0
Brutal expropriation, environmental racism and racial capitalism in Nigeria0
Nigeria democracy without development: how to fix it0
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on voter behaviour in Ghana’s 2020 general election: a case study of the Greater Accra region0
Local government elections and the illusion of pragmatism0
Electing to electrify: unpacking the local crisis and state response in Sun Valley, Soweto0
Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: the emergent forms of activism in an era of disillusionment0
Former presidents in Zambia and Botswana: leaving office but staying in power?0
An Election Postponement as a Change of the Constitution: Its Democratic and Constitutional Implications0
The 1990 Rustenburg conference: a critical analysis of the silencing of the black experience three decades into democratic South Africa0
Liberal disavowals: how social scientists mystify racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa0
The 2021 municipal elections: rise of the volatile voter or disaffected citizen?0
A critical review of the Zimbabwe special temporary residence permits, 2010–20210
A post-2024 general elections reflection: evaluating South Africans’ views on the prospects of implementing e-voting0
Democracy as a utopia and democracy as a tool of domination: the structural roles of race, class, and coloniality in Western democratic regimes0
Post-colonial development in Africa – Samir Amin’s lens0
Expanding the concept of large-scale co-ordinated unrest in South Africa's protest repertoires0
Neoliberal state and criminal activities in Nigeria0
Professor Maxi Schoeman (1954–2025)0
Against all odds: why the African Union still talks it out0
Normative Emulation and the Diffusion of Institutional Frameworks from the European Union to the African Union0
Democracy disconnected? Reflections on Elections ‘240
A fledgeling democracy: Tunisia in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings A fledgeling democracy: Tunisia in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings , edited by Mohamed Zayani,0
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