Review: Miscellany: Compliance and Public Authority
| Date | 01 September 1982 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208203700321 |
| Published date | 01 September 1982 |
| Author | Margaret Doxey |
| Subject Matter | Review |
500
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
cases
of
decolonization,
there
is
another
side
to
the
question
of
inde-
pendent
homelands
which Stultz
in
particular
brings
out.
He
makes
the
point that
the
Transkei
is
a
relatively
typical
'Third
World'
state
whose
credentials
are
basically
the
same
as
those
possessed
by
other
decolonized
territories
to
whom
international
recognition
has
been
extended.
Stultz
also
sees
value
in
separation
as
a
means
potentially
to
resolve
peaceably
the racial
situation
in
South
Africa.
He
indicates
ways
in
which
independence
has
improved
life
for
Transkeians,
and
he
shows
that
their
life
chances
are
today
no
worse
than
that
of most
people
in
a
number
of
new
states.
In
an essential
way
he
provocatively
turns
tables.
He
writes
that
'it
is
a
bold
individual
who
can
say
con-
fidently
that
the
alternative
to
their
taking
legal
independence
offered
adult
Transkeians
resident
in
the
territory
more
than,
or
even
as
much
as,
that
step
itself'
(p
167).
While
books
on
contemporary
South
Africa are
often
quickly over-
taken
by
the
swift
flow
of
events
there,
these
ones will
likely
remain
a
prime
source
of
fundamental thinking
on
the
question
of
independ-
ent
homelands.
And
they
are
of
immediate
practical
importance
be-
cause
policy towards
these
ethnic
enclaves
is
constantly
under
review.
Ultimately
a
better
policy
acceptable
to
world
opinion
may
emerge.
As
it
now
is,
the
many
critics
of
apartheid
might
see
separation
as
a
means
to
create
within
South
Africa
legally sovereign
spaces
where
races
may
live
and
mix
more
freely.
Calvin
A.
Woodward/University
of
New
Brunswick
MISCELLANY
COMPLIANCE
AND
PUBLIC
AUTHORITY
A
theory
with
international
applications
Oran
R.
Young
Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins
University
Press,
1979,
x,
172pp,
us$12.
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We
live
in
an
era
when
challenges
to
authority
have
become
common-
place.
Established
rules
are
more
likely
to
be
questioned
than
accepted
and
are
often
disregarded with
serious consequences
for
public
order.
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