ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a new genre of research on intergovernmental relations/management. It aims at inquiring about the potential replicability of these insights to other African attempts at democratisation. The chapter discusses examples from African and Southern European that are closer to the African continental experience rather than Northern case studies such as those from Western Europe and/or the North American states. It focuses on intergovernmental relations in democratic transitions as derived from the Southern European experience, but more specifically Spain, with a tentative application to South Africa. The division of powers brings on the need to manage policy and programmes among the multiple tiers, or what is formally known as intergovernmental relations. Several major intergovernmental challenges confront virtually every transitioning regime as they move to consolidation. An intergovernmental posture on the nature of the transitioned regime is important in avoiding such drift and ad hoc construction.
