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Apartheid Nationalism
National Party · 1948–1994 · South Africa · Ethnic Nationalist · Held state power · coding confidence high
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Permanent legal separation of racial groups with political rights reserved to one of them.
Economic model
Extensive state corporations, protected white labour, job reservation, migrant labour controls — sometimes called racial socialism by its critics.
Organisation of powers
Functioning parliamentary democracy for a minority; security-state rule for the majority.
Reading note
Another case where the authority score depends entirely on which population is being measured. The dataset codes the regime as experienced by the majority.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored 00
Coded at the centre, which surprises people in both directions: extensive state ownership and racially reserved employment inside a capitalist economy.
- Documented act or statuteState corporations dominated steel, electricity, transport, oil and armaments.
- Documented act or statuteJob reservation statutes reserved skilled categories for white workers until the 1980s.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +10
At the ceiling: racial classification governed marriage, residence, education and public space by statute.
- Documented act or statuteThe Immorality and Mixed Marriages Acts criminalised interracial relationships from 1949.
- Documented act or statuteBantu Education from 1953 prescribed a separate and explicitly inferior curriculum.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +07
Coded +7 rather than at the ceiling: a genuinely competitive parliament existed for the enfranchised minority.
- Documented act or statuteElections were contested and the governing party faced real parliamentary opposition throughout.
- Documented act or statuteStates of emergency from 1985 permitted detention without trial and press censorship for the majority.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +07
Coded +7: forced removal and the creation of nominally independent homelands administered from Pretoria.
- ScholarshipAround 3.5 million people were forcibly relocated under the Group Areas Act and homeland policy.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +10
At the ceiling: membership of the political community was assigned by statute on racial classification.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1950 Population Registration Act classified every resident by race.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1970 Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act stripped Black South Africans of national citizenship.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +02
Coded slightly positive: an elected government imposing a radical reordering by statute.
- Documented act or statuteThe system was legislated over two decades after a normal electoral victory in 1948.
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