Research Publications

WSG academics contribute to various journals and publish working and conference papers.

Journal articles

2021 Publications

Blaser Mapitsa, C., & Ramasobana, M. (2021). Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches. Development in Practice, 1-6.

Chirau, T. J., Blaser-Mapitsa, C., & Amisi, M. M. (2021). Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice.

Cooper, A., Batan, C., & Causa, L. K. (2021). The Oxford handbook of global south youth studies. Oxford University Press. Chapter: Youth, social contracting and the postcolony

Dube, C., Mnguni, L., & Tschudin, A. (2021). Peacebuilding through Public Participation Mechanisms in Local Government: The Case Study of Mbizana Local Municipality, South Africa. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2(2).

Gumede, W. (2021). Delivering democratic developmental state cities in South Africa. African Journal of Public Affairs, 12(1), 1-27.

Katumba, S., & Everatt, D. (2021). Urban Sprawl and Land Cover in Post-apartheid Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region, 1990–2018. Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 12(1_suppl), S147-S164.

Malatjie, I., Poonsamy, D., & Ngcaweni, B. (2021). The Impact of Covid-19 on Public Sector Performance: The Case of the National School of Government. Journal of Public Administration, 56(3), 562-575.

Sihlobo, W. (2021). Reply: how a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways. Agrekon, 60(1), 85-87.

Qobo, M., and Ngcaweni, B. (2021), Professionalising the South African Civil Service: in Retrospect and the Road Ahead, New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, Issue 82

Van Niekerk, R., & Padayachee, V. (2021). The rise and fall of a social democratic economic and social policy alternative in the ANC (1990–1996). Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 39(2), 230-245.