• South Africa at the end of the eighties: policy perspectives 1989

Johannesburg: CPS, 1989. (253p). Researched and written by CPS staff, this book covers major policy developments up to July 1989 and defines key policy issues for the 1990s.

• Transition to democracy: policy perspectives 1991

Edited by Robin Lee and Lawrence Schlemmer. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991. (278p) A review of political, social and economic policy changes in the turbulent period of 1989–1991, researched and written by CPS staff.

• The long journey: South Africa’s search for a negotiated settlement

Edited by Steven Friedman, researched by CPS. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1993. (206p) The most authoritative account yet published of Codesa and events leading up to the resumption of multiparty talks in April 1993. Based on in-depth interviews with participants, and confidential records of proceedings.

• Federalism and its foes

Edited by Steven Friedman and Richard Humphries. Johannesburg: CPS, May 1993. (260p) Proceedings of a joint Institute for Multi-Party Democracy/CPS workshop entitled ‘The politics and economics of federalism: a South African debate’, held in August 1992.

• Developing democracy

Edited by Riaan de Villiers and Doreen Atkinson. Johannesburg: CPS, September 1993. (244p) Proceedings of two workshops, entitled ‘Local democracy: reconciling representation and participation’, and ‘Lessons from the coalface: negotiated development in African cities’, convened in November 1992.

• Governability during the transition

Edited by Riaan de Villiers. Johannesburg: CPS, November 1993. (140p) Proceedings of a conference with the same title, convened in 1993.

• South Africa’s negotiated settlement

Edited by Steven Friedman and Doreen Atkinson. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1994. (306p) A sequel to The long journey, this book provides in-depth coverage of the multiparty negotiating forum, the eventual constitutional settlement, and the elections of April 1994. Also available in selected bookshops.

• Governing the provinces

Edited by Richard Humphries and Thabo Rapoo.Johannesburg:CPS, September 1994. (198p) Proceedings of two conferences, entitled ‘Empowering the regions: powers and functions in a new regional order’, and ‘Reintegration and the regional public sector’, convened in July and December 1993.

• Forums and the future

Edited by Riaan de Villiers. Johannesburg: CPS, December 1994. (150p) Proceedings of a conference entitled ‘The significance of South Africa’s forums, and their future in a post-apartheid order’, convened in March 1994.

• Civil society after apartheid

Edited by Richard Humphries and Maxine Reitzes. Johannesburg: CPS, December 1995 (225p) Proceedings of a conference on the role and status of civil society in post-apartheid South Africa, held in September 1995.

• Comparing Brazil and South Africa

Edited by Steven Friedman and Riaan de Villiers. Johannesburg: CPS/FGD/Idesp, Oct 1996 (372p). Proceedings of a conference convened in February 1996 by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Foundation for Global Dialogue and the Instituto de Estudos Econômicos, Sociais e Políticos de São Paulo on two transitional states in political and economic perspective.

• Aids orphans in Africa: building an urban response

Proceedings of a forum held in Johannesburg in July 2000. Centre for Policy Studies and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington.