Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa
<p>My thesis offers a unique case study of how ongoing crises and continual government interventions can sap the financial and organisational capacities necessary to implement (and contest) regulation. Based on 60 semi-structured interviews and a review of pertinent government policy documents...
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| author | Williams, P |
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| description | <p>My thesis offers a unique case study of how ongoing crises and continual government interventions can sap the financial and organisational capacities necessary to implement (and contest) regulation. Based on 60 semi-structured interviews and a review of pertinent government policy documents, I analyse how the regulatory space of tuition fee decisions by South African public universities was reconstituted by the 2015 to 2017 Fees Must Fall protests and their attempted settlements.</p>
<p>I modify how regulatory space analysis has traditionally been used: by treating regulatory spaces as dynamic and evolving; by viewing the boundaries of regulatory spaces as porous and overlapping; and by developing how the resources of authority, organisational capacity, and wealth are understood. My application of this re-envisioned regulatory space analysis reveals that tuition fee decisions were regulated by the calibration of the interactions between three main actors, and the four income streams on which universities rely.</p>
<p>Cumulatively, these calibrations shape: what is taught or researched, by who, to or for whom; who could learn what, where, and at what cost; and who paid what portion of that cost. They also prescribe the fora in which tuition fee decisions are made, and who participates in those fora. The protests and their attempted settlements reconstituted this regulatory space. An increasingly fragile link developed between fee determinations and student financial aid. Furthermore, new actors occupied dominant positions, and resources cascaded through this space - into and from cognate spaces.</p>
<p>My analysis highlights the limits of what regulation can achieve. I re-iterate the importance of the place of space, underlining the binding constraint South Africa’s macroeconomic deterioration placed on this regulatory space. I also discuss how government failure may undermine the regulatory regime operating in a regulatory space. My thesis reveals the insights which can be garnered from applying a regulatory lense to momentous political upheavals.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a788dda1-e91a-43f4-9138-5a579faf29e12022-11-15T09:51:20ZRe-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South AfricaThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:a788dda1-e91a-43f4-9138-5a579faf29e1LawRegulationEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Williams, PLange, B<p>My thesis offers a unique case study of how ongoing crises and continual government interventions can sap the financial and organisational capacities necessary to implement (and contest) regulation. Based on 60 semi-structured interviews and a review of pertinent government policy documents, I analyse how the regulatory space of tuition fee decisions by South African public universities was reconstituted by the 2015 to 2017 Fees Must Fall protests and their attempted settlements.</p> <p>I modify how regulatory space analysis has traditionally been used: by treating regulatory spaces as dynamic and evolving; by viewing the boundaries of regulatory spaces as porous and overlapping; and by developing how the resources of authority, organisational capacity, and wealth are understood. My application of this re-envisioned regulatory space analysis reveals that tuition fee decisions were regulated by the calibration of the interactions between three main actors, and the four income streams on which universities rely.</p> <p>Cumulatively, these calibrations shape: what is taught or researched, by who, to or for whom; who could learn what, where, and at what cost; and who paid what portion of that cost. They also prescribe the fora in which tuition fee decisions are made, and who participates in those fora. The protests and their attempted settlements reconstituted this regulatory space. An increasingly fragile link developed between fee determinations and student financial aid. Furthermore, new actors occupied dominant positions, and resources cascaded through this space - into and from cognate spaces.</p> <p>My analysis highlights the limits of what regulation can achieve. I re-iterate the importance of the place of space, underlining the binding constraint South Africa’s macroeconomic deterioration placed on this regulatory space. I also discuss how government failure may undermine the regulatory regime operating in a regulatory space. My thesis reveals the insights which can be garnered from applying a regulatory lense to momentous political upheavals.</p> |
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| title | Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa |
| title_full | Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa |
| title_short | Re-organising a fractious regulatory space: the #FeesMustFall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in South Africa |
| title_sort | re organising a fractious regulatory space the feesmustfall protests and the regulation of tuition fee decisions in south africa |
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