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460<br />

Wanderer, J.R. <strong>2011</strong>. On Vice and Confession. South<br />

African Journal of Philosophy, 30(3): 408-416.<br />

Department of political<br />

StuDieS<br />

Head of department: professor annette<br />

seegers<br />

departmental profile<br />

The Department of Political Studies is home to internationally<br />

recognised scholars in comparative politics, international<br />

relations, political theory, political behaviour, intellectual<br />

history, public policy, and public administration. Our staff<br />

members have made major intellectual contributions in<br />

their respective fields and some have published widely<br />

in renowned international journals. Our staff members<br />

have also made practical contributions to the policies and<br />

politics of our new democracy.<br />

Our department is home to one of the bigger postgraduate<br />

programmes and boasts a lively and cosmopolitan<br />

postgraduate student community. Our postgraduate<br />

programmes provide students with a firm academic<br />

foundation in political theory; comparative politics;<br />

international relations; South African politics; public<br />

administration; and public policy, amongst others. Students<br />

are encouraged to pursue more specialised study under<br />

the close supervision and guidance of faculty.<br />

Our undergraduate courses remain a popular choice and<br />

the department is one of the largest departments in the<br />

Faculty of Humanities at <strong>UCT</strong>.<br />

Staff and students both comprise a vibrant and intellectually<br />

engaged community and you are most welcome to join us.<br />

departmental statistics<br />

permanent and long-term contract staff<br />

professors 3<br />

associate professors 1<br />

senior lecturers 7<br />

lecturers 1<br />

administrative and clerical staff 3<br />

total 15<br />

Honorary staff<br />

emeritus professors 2<br />

Students<br />

doctoral 3<br />

master’s 170<br />

Honours 43<br />

Undergraduates 3007<br />

total 3223<br />

researcH fields and staff<br />

permanent staff<br />

dr JoHn akokpari<br />

Senior Lecturer: African politics; international relations;<br />

political economy; comparative politics.<br />

professor robert cameron<br />

Senior Lecturer: Comparative local government politics &<br />

administration; public sector reform; public administration<br />

thought.<br />

mr ZweletHU Jolobe<br />

Lecturer: Comparative politics; international relations;<br />

African politics; political violence; revolutions; contemporary<br />

South African politics; democratisation.<br />

professor robert mattes<br />

Senior lecturer: Democratisation; political behaviour;<br />

public opinion; survey research; research methodology;<br />

comparative politics.<br />

dr VinotHan naidoo<br />

Senior Lecturer: Public administration, with a special<br />

interest in comparative public administration and<br />

development management.<br />

associate professor andrew nasH<br />

Senior Lecturer: South African political thought; the history<br />

of political thought in the West; the making of a global<br />

political vocabulary<br />

dr tHiVen reddy<br />

Senior Lecturer: Comparative politics; South African<br />

politics; regime transition and democratisation; political<br />

party systems and political parties; post-colonial theory<br />

and identity politics<br />

dr karen smitH<br />

Senior Lecturer: International Relations theory; the<br />

developing world (Africa in particular) as an object of IR<br />

study and an agent of IR knowledge; South Africa and<br />

India as regional powers in the global South<br />

<strong>UCT</strong> ReseaRCh RepoRT '11

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