Missing Cadres? List Voting and the ANC’s Management of its Parliamentarians in the National Assembly, 1999-2003

Extracted from text ... 97 97 MISSING CADRES? List Voting and the ANC's Management of its Parliamentarians in the National Assembly, 1999-2003 By Geoffrey Hawker Geoffrey Hawker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia; Tel: + 61 2 9850 8885; Fax: + 61 2 9850 6064; e-mail: Geoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.au INTRODUCTION The party list system of voting can give a dominant party undue influence over its parliamentary members, critics say, instancing the practices of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa's National Assembly. The party has defended its use of the system and the 'redeployments' ..