Marius Pieterse

My article “A Year of Living Dangerously: Urban Assertiveness, Cooperative Governance and the First Year of Three Coalition-Led Metropolitan Municipalities in South Africa” has just appeared online in Politikon, a highly-acclaimed South African journal of political studies. The article assesses instances of urban assertiveness in a political context of “vertically divided authority”, in three South African metropolitan municipalities which fell to be governed by  opposition-party coalitions after the 2016 local government elections. Access it on Politikon‘s website here, or email me for a copy.