The Politics of Transition in Kenya
Author: W. Ouma Oyugi
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
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Governance and Transition Politics in Kenya
Author: Peter Wanyande
Publisher: University of Nairobi Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9966846948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical Power and Tribalism in Kenya
Author: Westen K. Shilaho
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 3319652958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses Kenya’s transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya’s multi-ethnic society. The author examines two significant questions: Why and how is ethnicity salient in Kenya’s transition from one-party rule to multiparty politics? What is the relationship between ethnic conflict and political liberalization? The project explains the perennial issues of political disorganization through state violence and ethnicization of politics, and considers the significance of the concept of justice in Kenya.
Kenya
Author: Shadrack W. Nasong'o
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1848137168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
Author: Lyn Ossome
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-04-02
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1498558313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory relationship between democracy and gendered violence as being largely influenced in the first instance by the capitalist interests vested in the colonial state and its imperative to exploit laboring women; secondly, in the nature of the postcolonial state and politics largely captured by ethnic, bourgeois class interests; and third, influenced by neoliberal political ideology that has remained largely disarticulated from women's structural positions in Kenyan society. It argues that colonial capitalist interests established certain patterns of gender exploitation that extended into the postcolonial period such that the indigenous bourgeoisie took the form of an ethnicized elite. Ethnicity shaped politics and neoliberal political ideology further blocked women’s integration into politics in substantive ways. It concludes that it is not so much the norms and values of liberal democracy that assist in understanding women’s exclusion, but rather the structural dynamics that have shaped women’s experiences of democratic politics. In this way, gender violence in the context of democratization and electoral violence with its gendered manifestation can be fully understood as deeply embedded in the history of the structural dynamics of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchalism in Kenya.
The Political Economy of Development in Kenya
Author: Kempe R. Hope
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1441191216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical analysis of sustainable development in post-independence Kenya offers a comprehensive policy framework within the context of the opportunities provided by the 2010 constitution.
Legislative Development in Africa
Author: Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 110849210X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.
The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics
Author: Nic Cheeseman
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 0198815697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Kenyan political system as well as an insightful account of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day.
Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition
Author: Noah L. Nathan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-02-28
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1108474950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.
The Rise of a Party-state in Kenya
Author: Jennifer A. Widner
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780520076242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK00 Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa. Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa.
