Author Profile: Anthony Butler

History

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Professor Anthony Butler has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.  He has previously been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Director of the Politics and Administration Programme at Birkbeck College, University of London; and Chair in Political Studies at University of the Witwatersrand.

Butler’s research focuses on politics and public policy in South Africa.  Particular interests include political funding, theories of the state, policy uncertainty, party systems, the politics of HIV/AIDS policy, and black economic empowerment in SA.[1]

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Bibliography

• The Idea of the ANC (2012)
• Cyril Ramaphosa (2011)
• Paying for Politics (2010)
• Zunami! (2009)
• Contemporary South Africa (2009)

References

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1. Antony Butler, the department of political studies at UCT. Accessed 22 February 2013

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