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Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: lessons from Kenya
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In order to complement ongoing current empirical research, this article draws wider lessons from the crisis that grew out of the disputed Kenyan presidential election of December 2007. Looking beyond the immediate trigger for the subsequent violence - namely, the election itself - the paper instead locates the roots of the crisis within three historical trends: elite fragmentation, political liberalization, and state informalization. The origins of each can be traced to the style of rule empl...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- African Affairs Journal website
- Volume:
- 108
- Issue:
- 430
- Pages:
- 1-26
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-2621
- ISSN:
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0001-9909
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:5302
- Deposit date:
- 2011-05-06
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- Copyright holder:
- D Branch & N Cheeseman
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Citation: Branch, D. & Cheeseman, N. (2008). 'Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: lessons from Kenya', African Affairs 108(430), 1-26. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/.
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