Robert Van Niekerk
Professor
Economics
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
Prof Robert van Niekerk’s area of research, teaching and publication is the institutional history, ideologies and understandings of social policy and social change in South Africa. He also has an interest in social policy in a post-apartheid South Africa – particularly polices aimed at overcoming inequality and developing social rights of citizenship and the ‘good society’, and looking at the factors that account for success and failure in policy implementation.
Research Interest
social policy in a post-apartheid South Africa
Publications
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Van Niekerk, R. (2013) The Historical Roots of a Social Democratic Tradition in the African National Congress. Comparing Brazil and South Africa: A Labour Perspective Round Table. COSATU House, Johannesburg. 7 February 2013.
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Van Niekerk, R.D. (2012) Revisiting History: The Creation of Provinces and the Politics of Social Policy in a Democratic South Africa. Social Policy & Administration, 46 (6), pp.617-635.
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Van Niekerk, R. (2013) Social policy, social citizenship and the historical idea of a social democratic welfare state in South Africa. Transformation, Edition 81, pp.112 - 139
