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

Published Berkeley : University of California, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 283 pages) : maps 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 Summary 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 Analysis 20th century african history 20th century kenyan history autocrat corruption daniel arap moi dictator governmental control head of state human rights abuses human rights jomo kenyatta kadu kanu kenya african national union kenya kenyan african democratic union kenyan history kenyan politics party states political climate president of kenya regimes repressive government single party system surveillance watchdog Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Kenya African National Union. SUBJECT Kenya African National Union fast Subject HISTORY. HISTORY / Africa / General Politics and government Politieke partijen. SUBJECT Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1978-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072006 Kenya Subject Kenya Kenia. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520911857 0520911857 0585274797 9780585274799 9780520076242 0520076249

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