Regime Threats and State Solutions - Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

List of contents

1. Bringing bureaucrats in; 2. Managing the state; 3. The origins of the Kenyan state; 4. Elite incorporation and the diversity of the state; 5. The provincial administration under President Kenyatta; 6. The provincial administration during President Moi's autocratic years; 7. Moi, the provincial administration, and multi-party elections; 8. Kibaki and the provincial administration; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Mai Hassan is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan, An Arbor.

Summary

Focusing on Kenya since independence, Hassan shows how leaders politicize the management of state institutions to induce bureaucratic behavior that furthers their political goals. This nuanced analysis will interest political scientists and scholars studying African politics, state bureaucracy, and political violence.

Additional text

'Carefully argued and meticulously researched, Hassan offers a strategic logic for why bureaucratic capacity varies so widely within post-colonial African states. Hassan systematically dissects and analyzes wide-ranging data from the Kenyan Provincial Administration with the goal of understanding how Kenya's leaders have used bureaucrats to manage threats to power … An outstanding and important contribution.' Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University

Product details

• Authors: Mai Hassan, Mai (University of Michigan Hassan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108490856
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49085-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Kenya, c 1960 to c 1970, Comparative Politics, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Central / national / federal government policies, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Central government policies, National liberation and independence, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies, Local government law