Political Power and Tribalism in Kenya

Political Power and Tribalism in Kenya

Author: Westen K. Shilaho

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 3319652958

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This 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

Kenya

Author: Godwin R. Murunga

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781842778579

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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. This book also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies.


Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy

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

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Critiquing 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.


Legislative Development in Africa

Legislative Development in Africa

Author: Ken Ochieng' Opalo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 110849210X

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Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.


The Political Economy of Development 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

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This 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.


The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics

Author: Nic Cheeseman

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 0198815697

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The 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.


Democracy in Africa

Democracy in Africa

Author: Nic Cheeseman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1316239489

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.