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| Title: | Special issue: Kenya |
| Editor: | Khadiagala, Gilbert M. |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Elections (ISSN 1609-4700) |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 204 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | elections 2007 political economy conflict resolution separation of powers ethnicity mass media land reform conference papers (form) 2008 |
| Abstract: | The postcolonial contest over resources, identity and dignity is at the heart of Kenya's political economy and informs debates about institutional change and continuity in the wake of the contested and violent outcome of the December 2007 elections. Stark socioeconomic inequalities, the marginalization of restless and combustible youths, disengaged elites and leaders, cancerous corruption at all levels of society, and weak institutions mark the Kenyan political landscape. The structure of the institutions produced by the compromises negotiated after the elections is cause for concern. The grand coalition government saved the moment but has the potential to cause paralysis. Already debilitating differences have emerged over the power-sharing arrangement between president and prime minister, while the coalition arrangements may lull the previously feuding elites into complacency, postponing the constitutional reform required to protect Kenya from a repetition of the problems that followed the 2007 elections. This special issue of 'Journal of African Elections', which emanated from a conference on conflict resolution in Kenya held at the University of the Witwatersrand in August 2008, deals with the politico-economic dimension of the 2007 election crisis in the context of democratization trends in Africa and the opportunities and challenges of building stable systems of political contestation. Contents: Forty days and nights of peacemaking in Kenya (Gilbert M. Khadiagala) - Kenya's 2007 elections: derailing democracy through ethno-regional violence (Rok Ajulu) - The legal framework of the GNU (Government of National Unity) and the doctrine of the separation of powers: implications for Kenya's National Legislative Assembly (Korwa G. Adar) - Ethnicity and political pluralism in Kenya (Shilaho Westen Kwatemba) - The 2007 general elections in Kenya: electoral laws and process (Felix Odhiambo Owuor) - The role of the Kenyan media in the 2007 elections (Fredrick Ogenga) - 'We've been to hell and back ... ': can a botched land reform programme explain Kenya's political crisis? (1963-2008) (Samuel Kariuki). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
