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Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa. By Nicholas Rush Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $31.95 paperback

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Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa. By Nicholas Rush Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $31.95 paperback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Mark Fathi Massoud*
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Politics Department and Legal Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA

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Meierhenrich, Jens. 2008. The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simmons, Erica S. and Smith, Nicholas Rush. 2019. “The Case for Comparative Ethnography.” Comparative Politics 51: 341–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar