What happens if globalization prevents state elites from employing ethnic redistribution with growth? This work examines this issue and more by showing how state elites in Malaysia and South Africa successfully pursued ethnic redistribution with growth.

How do these state elites attempt to retain their legitimacy and what happens if they do not succeed? Van der Westhuizen examines these issues by showing how state elites in Malaysia and apartheid South Africa successfully pursued ethnic redistribution with growth during the heydays of Keynesianism and Fordism and the complexity of such a strategy in the post-Cold War, post-Fordist world of the "competition state." He examines the ways in which Malaysia and South Africa have adapted to globalization by becoming "competition states" and the implication this process has for democratic consolidation. He provides a provocative analysis of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with development studies, international political economy, and comparative politics.

Preface
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Intermediation Processes, Coalitions, and Structural Change
The Advance of Malay Capital: From Growth to Redistribution
From the Reddingsdaad Movement to "Yuppiehood": The Nationalist-Corporatist Project of Afrikaner Nationalism
Back to Growth: Patrinage and Paradox of the Malaysian Competition State
ANC Economic Policy in Transition: From Aspiring Developmental Towards Neo-Liberal Competition State
Echoes of History: From Volkskapitalisme to Black Empowerment
Conclusion
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Index.