The rise of a party-state in Kenya : from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" /

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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 Kenyatt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Widner, Jennifer A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California, ©1992.
Temas:
Kenya African National Union.
Kenya African National Union
1978-2002
HISTORY.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Politics and government
Politieke partijen.
Kenya > Politics and government > 1978-2002.
Kenya
Kenya > Politique et gouvernement > 1978-2002.
Kenia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of acronyms, abbreviations, and foreign terms
  • Abbreviated chronology of events
  • 1. Creating political order
  • Single-party dominance
  • Rise of the party-state in Africa
  • Argument
  • Kenyan case
  • Overview
  • 2. Single-party dominance, 1964-1969
  • "civil society": class, ethnicity, and clientelism
  • Competition for resources
  • Players
  • Political strategy and KANU as a catchall party
  • Harambee and the basis for compromise
  • Restriction of opposition
  • Provincial administration and the civil service
  • Party-government relations in post-independence Kenya
  • 3. Struggle in the Rift Valley, 1970-1975
  • Source of competition
  • Organizing an opposition
  • Rise of a populist coalition
  • Calls for redistribution
  • Gema and the bid to rejuvenate KANU
  • President's strategy
  • Battle for political space
  • Resolution
  • Conclusions
  • 4. Transition period, 1976-1980
  • Gema and the change-the-constitution movement
  • Ethnic arithmetic and the party elections of 1977
  • Distributional coalitions and the 1979 general election
  • KANU at the end of the transition period
  • 5. From "Harambee!" to "Nyayo!" 1980-1985
  • Moi's accession to the presidency
  • Faction and the proscription of ethnic welfare societies
  • New KANU monopoly
  • Njonjo affair
  • Nyayo: following in the footsteps
  • Party-state in 1985
  • 6. Party, state, and civil society, 1985-1990
  • Consolidation of changes in party-state relations
  • Changing patterns of participation
  • "Civil society" and opposition success
  • Testing the limits
  • 7. Kenyan party-state in comparative perspective
  • Argument in review
  • KANU in comparative perspective
  • Kenyan holdout
  • Single-party rule, "civil society," and patterns of governance. Appendix: the uses of evidence.

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