Steven Friedman

526 total citations
36 papers, 274 citations indexed

About

Steven Friedman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Friedman has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 274 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Law and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Steven Friedman's work include Legal Issues in South Africa (11 papers), South African History and Culture (9 papers) and International Development and Aid (5 papers). Steven Friedman is often cited by papers focused on Legal Issues in South Africa (11 papers), South African History and Culture (9 papers) and International Development and Aid (5 papers). Steven Friedman collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, India and Bulgaria. Steven Friedman's co-authors include Mark Robinson, Norma Kriger, Jeremy Seekings, Crain Soudien, Nina G. Jablonski, Lawrence Blum, Mark Swilling and Vusi Gumede and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Affairs and South African Journal of Science.

In The Last Decade

Steven Friedman

32 papers receiving 190 citations

Peers

Steven Friedman
Kimberly Lanegran United States
Tom Davenport Russia
William Gumede South Africa
Neil Stammers United Kingdom
Michael Goodhart United States
Roman Krznaric United Kingdom
John G. Dale United States
Paul Wellings South Africa
Stuart Weir United Kingdom
Vera da Silva Telles Brazil
Kimberly Lanegran United States
Steven Friedman
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Countries citing papers authored by Steven Friedman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Friedman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Friedman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Friedman, Steven. (2024). Who will free us from ‘service delivery’? Why a supposed solution is a problem. South African Journal of Science. 120(11/12).
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Friedman, Steven. (2021). In, but not of, Africa: a divided South Africa faces COVID-19. The Round Table. 110(1). 16–30. 3 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2021). And now for the autopsy? A review of Mcebisi Ndletyana'sAnatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990–2019. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 39(3). 390–392. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2018). The ‘science’ of superiority: Africa and scholarly colonial assumptions. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 36(4). 449–463. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2018). Power in Action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 3 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven, et al.. (2017). The limits of prescription: courts and social policy in India and South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 55(3). 353–376. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2017). The ANC isn’t ready to radically transform the South African economy. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2017). South Africa’s political crisis: Unfinished liberation and fractured class struggle. African Affairs. 119(475). 308–309. 9 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2016). Winning public trust: Towards a wider agenda for judicial transformation. South African Crime Quarterly.
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Friedman, Steven. (2016). Enabling agency: the Constitutional Court and social policy. Transformation. 91(1). 19–39. 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2015). More of the same : path dependence and corruption in South Africa : the economy. 2015(60). 32–33. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2015). Archipelagos of dominance. Party fiefdoms and South African democracy. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. 9(3). 139–159. 4 indexed citations
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Jablonski, Nina G., Lawrence Blum, Steven Friedman, et al.. (2015). The Colour of Our Future. Wits University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (2011). Before and after: reflections on regime change and its aftermath. Transformation. 75(1). 4–12. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Mark & Steven Friedman. (2007). Civil Society, Democratization, and Foreign Aid: Civic Engagement and Public Policy in South Africa and Uganda. Democratization. 14(4). 643–668. 31 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven, et al.. (1996). Democratisation or bureaucratisation? Civil society, the public sphere and the State in post-apartheid South Africa. Transformation. 55–73. 10 indexed citations
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Kriger, Norma, Jeremy Seekings, & Steven Friedman. (1995). Heroes or Villains? Youth Politics in the 1980s. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 28(2). 431–431. 59 indexed citations
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Friedman, Steven. (1987). The struggle within the struggle: South African resistance strategies. Transformation. 58–70. 2 indexed citations

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