| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 283 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kenya African National Union.
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Kenya African National Union. |
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Kenya African National Union. |
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1978-2002.
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Kenya. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1978-2002 |
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Kenya. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Widner, Jennifer A. Rise of a party-state in Kenya. Berkeley : University of California, ©1992 0520076249 (DLC) 91044328 (OCoLC)25026599 |
| ISBN |
9780520911857 (electronic book) |
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0520911857 (electronic book) |
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0585274797 (electronic book) |
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9780585274799 (electronic book) |
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9780520076242 (alkaline paper) |
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0520076249 (alkaline paper) |
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0520076249 (alkaline paper) |
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