Department of Political Science: Recent submissions
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Voting without institutionalized political parties: Primaries, manifestos and the 2007 general elections in Kenya
(Society for International Development and Institute for Development Studies-University of Nairobi, 2010)This chapter discusses the impact of institutional capacity of political parties on the organization of party primaries and formulation of manifestos for the 2007 general elections in Kenya. The discussion also assesses ... -
Electoral violence during party primaries in Kenya
(Routledge, 2018-08-08)Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in 1991, elections have witnessed intra-party violence during the primaries for selecting parliamentary and civic seats candidates. This article addresses the question ... -
Interfacing the state and the voluntary sector for African development: Lessons from Kenya
(CODESRIA, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of forging a complementary role between the state and the voluntary sector as an alternative framework for enhancing African development, given that none of these ... -
Some positive aspects of neo-liberalism for African development: The revival of solidarity in co-operatives
(2013-01)The history of cooperative development in Africa has left a mixed conception of these organizations. Whereas some observers regard them to be neither voluntary nor members’ organizations, but extensions of the government; ... -
Encyclopedia of the developing world
(Routledge, 2013-10-18)A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of the Developing World is a comprehensive work on the historical and current status of developing countries. Containing more than 750 entries, the Encyclopedia ... -
Electoral violence during party primaries in Kenya
(Routledge, 2018-02-03)Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in 1991, elections have witnessed intra-party violence during the primaries for selecting parliamentary and civic seats candidates. This article addresses the question ... -
Ethnicity and/or Issues: The 2013 General Elections in Western Kenya
(Elections Institute of South Africa, 2014)It is often assumed that Kenyans vote on the basis of ethnic identification rather than the socio-economic and political issues affecting their lives. However, experience from earlier elections shows that issues and interests ... -
Good Governance and Service Delivery: A Study of Citizen Participation in Kisumu County
(Universal Journal of Management, 2018)Citizen participation is embedded in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and the County Governments Act of 2012. The responsibility of operationalizing and implementing these provisions lies with both levels of government. ... -
Surviving liberalization: the cooperative movement in Kenya
(2016)The Cooperative Facility for Africa (CoopAfrica) is a regional technical cooperation programme of the ILO contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the promotion of decent work in Africa ... -
Social and solidarity economy: Our common road towards decent work
(2011-10)This chapter aims to explain the meaning and nature of the social and solidarity economy (SSE). The SSE is all around us and refers to familiar realities for everyone in the world: we are all members of at least one ... -
Collective action among African smallholders: Trends and lessons for future development strategies
(Intl Food Policy Res Inst, 2014)Wanyama, Fredrick; Poulton, Colin; Markelova, Helen; Dutilly-Diane, Celine; Hendrikse, George; Bijman, Jos; Francesconi, Gian Nicola; Bernard, Tanguy; Cook, Michael; Badiane, Ousmane and Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie. 2014. ... -
2 Political Leadership and Development in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
(2013-04-01)The promise of development was taken to heart in virtually all African countries at independence. However, 50 years later, it remains unfulfilled for the majority of the people. Many analysts have attributed the lack ... -
2 Political patronage and the expansion of cash transfer programmes in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-08)The Government of Kenya has run pilot cash transfer programmes since 2004 and formalised them as part of social protection policy in 2011. Subsequently, cash transfer programmes have steadily been expanded. Three of ... -
The Private Sector in the East African Common Market
(2017-03-05)Dahir, Abdi Latif (2011), “Trade within EAC Member States Doubles despite Free Market Fears”, in Daily Nation, Nairobi, Tuesday December 31st … EABC (2011), “About EABC” (http://eabc.info/about, accessed on 29th ... -
Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work
(2016)After the financial crisis in 2007-2008, some regions and countries, notably in Asia and Latin America, witnessed encouraging and rapid signs of recovery in their real economy, in terms of employment and poverty ... -
The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya
(2017-05-02)This paper discusses the role of Kenya's political settlement in the adoption and promotion of social protection, which has expanded significantly since 2003. Analysis focuses on the interplay between the domestic ...
