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Tensions and reversals in democratic transitions : the Kenya 2007 general elections / edited by Karuti Kanyinga and Duncan Okello.

Title
Tensions and reversals in democratic transitions : the Kenya 2007 general elections / edited by Karuti Kanyinga and Duncan Okello.
Publication
Nairobi : Society for International Development : Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Kanyinga, Karuti
  • Okello, Duncan.
  • Society for International Development. Regional Office for Eastern Africa.
  • University of Nairobi. Institute for Development Studies
Description
xxi, 724 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 25 cm.
Summary
This book is a product of much reflection on the gaps and gains in Kenya's democratic process. The book is inspired by the desire to record, archive, analyse, and interpret that sad but immensely significant occurrence in Kenya's political evolution: the 2007 General Elections and the violent social convulsions that followed; the deeply hidden social-political divisions the post-election violence brought to the fore; and the resultant constitutional and institutional architecture of governance it created - the Grand Coalition Government. The book also reflects on the progress that has been made and the threats inherent therein. It sits on the side of the debate that takes the view that the democratisation process will not necessarily be peaceful, neat, or uni-linear. It acknowledges that the balance sheet of Kenya's democratisation project demonstrates mixed result. Whereas in the period leading up to December 2007 the 'assets' side of the balance sheet was arguably healthier, the post-election violence exposed huge liabilities mostly hidden in the structural inefficiencies of Kenya.
Subject
  • Elections > Corrupt practices > Kenya
  • Presidents > Kenya > Election > 2007
  • Political culture > Kenya
  • Political violence > Kenya
  • Kenya > Politics and government > 2002-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9789966786139 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2010305643
OCLC
667213345
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library