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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 283 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911857
  • 0520911857
  • 0585274797
  • 9780585274799
  • 9780520076242
  • 0520076249
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rise of a party-state in Kenya.DDC classification:
  • 967.6204 20
LOC classification:
  • DT433.584 .W53 1992eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.

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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