CURRICULUM VITAE. STEVEN FRIEDMAN, D.Litt. Research Associate, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE STEVEN FRIEDMAN, D.Litt Research Associate, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) Visiting Professor of Politics and International Relations Rhodes University ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS BA (Hons), Political Science, University of the Witwatersrand, D.Litt, Rhodes University, 2007 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY : Labour Reporter and later Senior Editor, Financial Mail. Responsible for reporting on labour relations, socio-economic issues and black politics : Labour Reporter and then Labour Correspondent, Rand Daily Mail. Contributor to, inter alia, The Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times. Author of study on the history of the contemporary black trade union movement (see below). 1985: Joined SA Institute of Race Relations to conduct a detailed study of the reform process, which relied on extensive interviews with politicians, civil servants and activists. Publications produced as a result of this study are listed below : Policy Research Manager, SA Institute of Race Relations. Supervised a unit engaged in research on contemporary policy issues : Senior Research Officer, Centre for Policy Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Business School. Engaged in analysis of transition to democracy and a study of prospects for a "Social Contract", a negotiated social and economic compromise between major interest groups. Also study of National Party strategies during the transition Director, Centre for Policy Studies, an independent, non-profit, policy research centre Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies Research Associate, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) Visiting Professor of Politics and International Relations, Rhodes University

2 Former consultant on urban politics to Urbanisation Unit, Urban Foundation and to Development Bank of Southern Africa ( ). Former Member, Evaluation Team assessing Development Bank of Southern Africa Urban Development projects (1993) Former Trustee, Institute for Multi-Party Democracy. National Head, Information Analysis Department, Independent Electoral Commission (1994) OTHER EXPERIENCE Member, Commission on Provincial Government Think Tankexploring constitutional options relevant to provincial government, 1994/95 Member of reference groups evaluating US and German democracy and governance funding, 1994, 1995/6 Member, international research council, International Forum for Democratic Studies, Washington DC Editorial Board member, Journal of Democracy Former Advisory Board member, Institute for Security Studies, Midrand, South Africa Member, Specialist Team drafting Safety and Security White Paper, 1997 Participant in several public and private policy formulation exercises Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Washington DC, February-April, 1999 Until 1992, author of fortnightly column on current political developments in Weekly Mail. Since 1994, author of similar column for Business Day. Between 1999 and 2002, author of column in Mail and Guardian, and between 1999 and 2000 in Reconstruct (Sunday Independent). Currently contribute commissioned articles to Business Day PUBLICATIONS Building Tomorrow Today: African Workers in Trade Unions, Ravan Press, Black Politics at the Crossroads, SA Institute of Race Relations, 1986 Understanding Reform, SAIRR, 1986 The Limits of Co-Option, SAIRR, 1986

3 Reform Revisited, SAIRR, 1987 New Mood in Moscow, SAIRR, 1988 "The National Party in the South African Transition", in Transition to Democracy, Centre for Policy Studies, "Soweto: Managing the Transition?", Politikon, Volume 18, Number 1, January, "Another Elephant?: Prospects for A South African Social Contract", CPS, 1991 "An Unlikely Utopia: State and Civil Society in South Africa", Politikon, December, 1991 "The Shapers of Things To Come?: National Party Choices in the South African Transition", CPS, 1992 "The Politics of Economic Compromise" in R. Schrire (ed). - The Economic Debate, Oxford University Press, 1992 The Elusive "Community": The Dynamics of Negotiated Urban Development, CPS, 1993 Editor (with Richard Humphries), Federalism and Its Foes, CPS, 1993 Editor, The Long Journey: South Africa's Quest for A Negotiated Settlement, Ravan Press, 1993 "South Africa's Reluctant Transition", Journal of Democracy, Volume 4, Number 2, April, 1993 Editor (with Doreen Atkinson), The Small Miracle: South Africa's Negotiated Settlement, Ravan Press, 1994 Yesterday's Pact: Power-Sharing and Legitimate Governance in Post-Settlement South Africa, Centre for Policy Studies, 1994 Every Navigator Needs A Map: The Case for Independent Policy Research in South Africa, Centre for Policy Studies, 1995 (With Maxine Reitzes) Democratic Selections? Civil Society and Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Development Bank of South Africa, 1995 "South Africa: Divided In a Special Way" in Diamond, Larry, Linz, Juan and Lipset, Seymour Martin (eds)., Politics in Developing Countries, Lynne Rienner, 1995 Author, South African entry, Lipset (ed.) Encyclopedia of Democracy, Congressional Quarterly, "Too Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: South Africa's Bargained Transition, Democratic Prospects and John Rawls's Veil of Ignorance", Politikon

4 "Delivery and Its Discontents: Delivery Targets and the Development Challenge", Development Southern Africa, October 1997 The Problem with Policy, Centre for Policy Studies Policy Brief, 1998 No Easy Stroll to Dominance: Party Dominance, Opposition and Civil Society in South Africa in Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins (eds) The Awkward Embrace: One-Party Domination and Democracy, Amsterdam, Harwood, 1999 (also published in Towards Democracy, January 1997) Agreeing to Differ: African Democracy - Its Obstacles and Prospects Social Research 1999 Who We Are: Voter Participation, Rationality and the 1999 Election Politikon November 1999 South Africa After Mandela Journal of Democracy October 1999 with Mark Shaw Power in Partnership? Trade Unions, Forums and the Transition in Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster (eds) Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa St Martin s Press, New York, 2000 with Ivor Chipkin A Poor Voice?: The Politics of Inequality in South Africa, Johannesburg: Centre for Policy Studies, 2001 Free But Unequal: democracy, inequality and the State in Latin America and Africa, Johannesburg: Centre for Policy Studies 2001 A Quest for Control: High Modernism and Its Discontents in Johannesburg, South Africa in Blair A Ruble, Richard E Stren, Joseph S Tulchin with Diana H Varat (eds) Urban Governance Around the World, Washington DC Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 2002 Democracy, Inequality and the Reconstitution of Politics in Joseph S Tulchin with Amelia Brown (ed.) Democratic Governance and Social Inequality, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 2002 Equity in the Age of Informality: Labour markets and Redistributive Politics in South Africa Transformation 50, 2002 Equity in the Age of Informality: Labour markets and Redistributive Politics in South Africa Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, Working Paper 160, July 2002 With Dumisani Hlophe And Their Hearts and Minds will Follow? Tax Collection, Authority and Legitimacy in Democratic South Africa IDS Bulletin 33 (3), Institute for Development Studies, Sussex University, 2002 The State, Civil Society and Social Policy: Setting a Research Agenda Politikon, 30 (1), pp. 3-25, 2003

5 Golden Dawn or White Flag?: The State, Civil Society and Social Policy, Durban, Olive Publications, 2003 Sending them a Message: Culture, Tax Collection and Governance in South Africa Johannesburg, Centre for Policy Studies Policy Issues and Actors 2003 Agreeing to Differ: African Democracy Its Obstacles and Prospects in Mammo Muchie (ed) The Making of the Africa-Nation: Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance, London, Adonis and Abbey, 2003 South Africa: Building Democracy After Apartheid in E Gyimah-Boadi (ed.) Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress, Boulder, London, Lynne Rienner, 2004 The Forgotten Sovereign: citizens, states and foreign policy in the south in Justin Robertson and Maurice A East (eds) Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War foreign policy-making structures and processes Abingdon, Routledge, 2005 South Africa: Globalization and the Politics of Redistribution in Joseph S Tulchin and Gary Bland (eds) Getting Globalization Right: The Dilemmas of Inequality Boulder, London, Lynne Rienner, 2005 pp (With Kenny Hlela and Paul Thulare) A question of voice: informality and pro-poor policy in Johannesburg, South Africa in Nabeel Hamdi (ed) Urban Futures: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, Rugby, United Kingdom, ITDG, 2005, pp Getting Better Than "World Class": The Challenge of Governing Postapartheid South Africa Social Research Vol. 72, No. 3 (Fall 2005) (with Shauna Mottiar) A Rewarding Engagement? The Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of HIV/AIDS Politics & Society 2005 no 33 pp Voice for Some in Jessica Piombo and Lia Nijzink (eds) Electoral Politics in South Africa: Assessing the First Democratic Decade, New York, Palgrave Macmillan May 2006 Participatory governance and citizen action in post-apartheid South Africa Geneva, International Institute of Labour Studies, 2006, Discussion Paper /164/2006 Numerous magazine and newspaper articles.