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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction. Kenya's 2013 General Election: A National Event Set Between 'The Inescapable' and 'The Unforeseeable' -- Against electoral doom-mongering -- Navigating the inescapable and the unforeseeable -- Exploring the particular to reach the general -- The scope and limits of democratisation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Kenyan Elections: When Does History Repeat Itself and Does Not Repeat Itself? -- History does not repeat itself: Peaceful elections -- In contrast, history stutters -- Unknown post-election issues -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Kenyan Elections: The ICC, God and the 2013 Kenyan General Elections -- Impunity of elites and ethnicisation -- The ICC and the pentecostalisation of the political life -- An impossible transitional justice? -- Towards a postcolonial diplomacy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The 4 March 2013 General Elections in Kenya: From Latent Tension to Contained Violence -- Introduction -- The shambolic candidate selection process -- An apparently calm campaign -- Voting outcomes cause localized violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Getting it 'Wrong' (Again)? Wahojiwa vs. Wapiga Kura in the 2013 Kenyan Election -- Introduction -- 2013 Election background: Competitive uncertainty and the 'Certitude of Surveys' -- Crunching -- or 'massaging' -- the numbers?: The Pollsters vs. the IEBC -- The post-election poll debate: Proof or posture? -- Conclusion: Pollsters' past, pollsters' future? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Political Integration of Minority Communities: The Ogiek of Eastern Mau Forest in the 2013 Elections -- Introduction -- The Ogiek: Apolitically marginalised indigenous community -- A sense of belonging? Following the lead of the wider Kalenjin community -- Political participation in the 2013 general elections. |
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Beyond ethnic arithmetic: Alternative explanations for electoral choices -- Alternative patterns of explanation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and the 2013 Kenyan Elections: Between Politics of the Spirit and Expanding Entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Pentecostalism and politics: identifying two strands -- Bishop Wanjiru and the 2013 elections -- Strand A: "When the righteous are in authority" -- but who are the righteous? -- Strand B: "BMW": Wanjiru as an entrepreneur -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Role of Election Observers: Diplomatic Bias and the Findings of The Kenyan 2013 Election -- Introduction -- KHRC: Election monitoring by human rights networks -- AGLI and FCPT: Grassroots election observers -- ELOG, civil society observers: Election watchman or watchman of peace? -- ELOG and other reports: The question of rejected votes -- AU, EAC, IGAD and COMESA: Regional observers -- Occidental observers: EU Election Observation Mission -- Occidental observers: The Carter Center International Observation Mission -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Negotiating History for Negotiated Democracy: The Case of Kisii County in 2013 Kenya Elections -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Understanding the Abagusii voting pattern -- Sharing of leadership positions -- Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Twitting Votes: The Middle Class and the 2013 Elections in Kenya -- Introduction -- Middle class debate and Kenya expanding economy -- Middle Class apathy as an expression of civil movement atrophy -- The outcome of the elections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Quest for New Political Leadership in the South Rift, Kenya -- Introduction -- Narok voting patterns in competitive politics, 1992-2012. |
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The 2013 election campaign in Narok County -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Kikuyu-Kalenjin Relations in IDP Camps and the 2013 Elections: An Invitation to 'The' Conversation -- Introduction -- Pre-colonial and colonial Kikuyu-Kalenjin relations: Some reflections -- The Kikuyu and the Kalenjin displaced persons in 2012 and 2013 -- Displaced persons and the 2013 pre-election period -- The aftermath and analysis of the Kikuyu-Kalenjin relations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- An Evaluation of Political Mobilization Strategies Employed by Vigilante Groups in Kisii County during the 2013 Kenyan Elections -- Introduction -- Conceptualization: Vigilantism and electoral violence -- Reasons behind CPG shift to political participation -- Displaying power in the city -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- New Constitution, Odingaism and the State of Internal Democracy in Orange Democratic Movement and its Effects on the 2013 Elections in Kenya -- Introduction: Historical development of parties and party systems -- The origin and development of ODM -- Death and by-elections -- Ideology or ethnicity: Which way for Raila? -- Odingaism ideology and the 2013 elections -- Knowledge of the contents of intra-party democracy -- Candidate selection processes -- Odingaism in the gubernatorial and senatorial race in Siaya and Kisumu counties -- Existence and influence of institutional arrangements in political parties -- Intra-party democracy and party funding -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Luo Women Voters/Aspirants and the New Constitutional Dispensation in the March 2013 Kenya Elections: The case of Siaya and Kisumu Counties -- Introduction -- Women and politics in the new constitutional dispensation in Kenya -- Women voters and aspirants in the 2013 Elections in Kisumu and Siaya counties -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
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The Election Commission and the Supreme Court: Two new institutions put to the test by elections -- Introduction -- A new "independent" electoral commission, the IEBC -- The Supreme Court's dilemma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- "The Grassroots Are Very Complicated": Marginalization and the Emergence of Alternative Authority in the Kenyan Coast 2013 Elections -- Introduction -- Patronage politics and the institution of the Member of Parliament -- The "loss" of majimbo and the political marginalisation of Coast Region politicians (2002-2013) -- The Coast People's Forum and other professional associations -- The Mijikenda Council of Elders Association (MICOSEA) -- The MRC: Just another political association? -- Christians and Coasterians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Back cover. |
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"Non-Latin script record." |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Kenya -- History.
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Kenya. |
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History. |
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Kenya -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Kenya -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mwangi, Susan.
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| ISBN |
9789966028525 (electronic book) |
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9966028528 (electronic book) |
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9966028528 |
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9789966028518 |
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996602851X |
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