Statecraft in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Pathways to the Construction of a Sustainable Kenyan State - Brossura

Irungu, Kiunjuri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1482316919 ISBN 13: 9781482316919

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Riassunto

How are states built? How can a fragile state be transformed into a viable and stable state? How can a sustainable Kenyan state be built? This book focuses on this subject. In seeking for an answer, the author critically examines the various tools of statecraft as postulated in the main contemporary schools of thought in state building; namely, consociationalism, centripetalism, power dividing and complex power sharing as they relate to the unique circumstances of the Kenyan society. The author approaches this subject from the broader perspective of institutional engineering which involves the creative design of political institutions.The book offers a refreshing and critical assessment of the key tenets of institutional design including the organizational design of the state, the electoral system, the political party system, the system of government, and bill of rights regime. The author draws from the experience of a wide range of countries across the world – particularly South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia and India - to demonstrate the pathways the Kenyan people have to tread to secure their future and country.The point of departure is the appreciation that although Kenya has enjoyed relative peace in much of her post-independence political history, it has overtime become increasingly clear that this seeming peace conceals deep ethnic tensions which can, and has, found expression in ethnic conflicts. These tensions and cycles of ethnic conflict during electoral periods, have revealed the fragility of the Kenyan State, raised concerns over her long-term viability and underscored the need for effective measures aimed at building a stable and durable state. After the 2007 ethnic conflict, which left the country on the brinks of civil war, steps were taken in the direction of reconstructing the Kenyan state. From the perspective of the art of statecraft, this book assesses the efficacy of these steps and offers the way forward towards building a stable and sustainable Kenyan state.

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L'autore:

The author, Mr. Kiunjuri Edward Irungu, was born in 1968 in Murang’a County and was brought up in the slopes of Aberdare Ranges in Central Kenya. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Government and Philosophy) from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Master of Arts Degree in Public Administration from Moi University, Kenya. He has worked in various capacities in private and public institutions including serving as official speechwriter for President Mwai Kibaki of the Republic of Kenya throughout his ten-year term in office. He is an avid reader and political analyst with an insatiable appetite for Greek classics, political philosophy and poetry. He has travelled widely around the world, in the process of which he has acquired profound insights into the political systems and cultures of a wide range of countries. He is also the author of a critical political work, Machiavellian art of Political Manipulation: The Kenyan Experience and a novel The Invisible Hand.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482316919
• ISBN 13: 9781482316919
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 312