Comparative politics; South African politics; regime transition and democratisation; political party systems and political parties; post colonial theory and identity politics
Politics & public policy in South Africa, including political funding, theories of the state, policy uncertainty, party systems, the politics of HIV/AIDS policy, and black economic empowerment in SA
Political philosophy; Subaltern Studies (decolonial thought, the politics of representation, and postcolonial theory); African politics; radical African/Black traditions of intellectual thought
Dr Vinothan Naidoo
Senior Lecturer
Convenor: Public Policy & Administration postgraduate programme
Comparing development and welfare paradigms of South Africa, Mauritius and Chile; emerging powers and the remaking of the global economic architecture.