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Umfang: 1 online resource (xix, 283 p. ) , maps ;

Ausgabe: First edition.

ISBN: 9780520911857 , 0520911857 , 9780585274799 , 0585274797

Inhalt: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Maps and Tables -- , Acknowledgments -- , Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Foreign Terms -- , Abbreviated Chronology of Events -- , CHAPTER ONE. Creating Political Order -- , CHAPTER TWO. Single-Party Dominance, 1964-1969 -- , CHAPTER THREE. The Struggle in the Rift Valley, 1970-1975 -- , CHAPTER FOUR. The Transition Period, 1976-1980 -- , CHAPTER FIVE. From "Harambee!" to "Nyayo!" 1980-1985 -- , CHAPTER SIX. Party, State, and Civil Society, 1985-1990 -- , CHAPTER SEVEN. The Kenyan Party-State in Comparative Perspective -- , Appendix: The Uses of Evidence -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780520076242

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0520076249

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1525/9780520911857

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Umfang: XIX, 283 S. : Kt.

ISBN: 0-520-07624-9

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Politologie

Schlagwort(e): Parteienstaat

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 283 pages) , maps

ISBN: 9780520911857 , 0585274797 , 9780585274799 , 9780520076242 , 0520076249

Inhalt: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa

Anmerkung: 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. , English

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Widner, Jennifer A Rise of a party-state in Kenya Berkeley : University of California, ©1992 ISBN 0520076249

Sprache: Englisch

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