Kenya''s Uncertain Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Peter Kagwanja is President of the Africa Policy Institute andresearch fellow at theUniversity of Pretoria! South Africa.Roger Southall is Editor ofthe Journal of Contemporary African Studies and Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of the Witwatersrand! South Africa. Klappentext Presents a retrospective analysis of the political! social and economic contradictions that pushed Kenya! viewed as one of Africa's most stable countries! close to a democratic recession. Zusammenfassung This book is a retrospective analysis of the political, social and economic contradictions that pushed Kenya, viewed as one of Africa’s most stable countries, close to a democratic recession. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Democratic Recession: Violence and Power-Sharing in Kenya Peter Kagwanja! Africa Policy Institute & University of Pretoria and Roger Southall! Wits University2. The Politics of Displacement in Multi-Party Kenya Priscah Kamungi! Centre of Conflict Studies! University of Nairobi3. Resource-Based Conflict and Kenya's Electoral Crisis in 2008 Rutten Marcel! African Studies Centre! Leiden The Netherlands4. Kenya's Political Militias Peter Kagwanja! API and U5. Donor Politics and the 2008 Kenyan Crisis Monica Juma! Africa Institute of South Africa! Pretoria6. Mediating Electoral Crisis: The African Union and the 2008 Kenyan Crisis Stephen Brown! School of Political Studies. University of Ottawa7. Regionalism and Conflict: Lessons from the Kenyan Crisis Gilbert Khadiagala! University of Wits! South Africa

Product details

• Authors: Peter Southall Kagwanja
• Assisted by: Peter Kagwanja (Editor), Peter (Rhodes University Kagwanja (Editor), Kagwanja Peter (Editor), Roger Southall (Editor), Roger (University of Witwatersrand Southall (Editor), Southall Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2010
• EAN: 9780415550420
• ISBN: 978-0-415-55042-0
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Kenya, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy