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4 - Party Instability and Political Violence in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2024

Aditi Malik
Affiliation:
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
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This chapter combines national-level violence and volatility data with in-depth elite interviews to demonstrate the relationship between short projected party lifespans and recurring bouts of ethnic party violence in multiparty Kenya. The chapter proceeds in three phases from the KANU era to the period after the promulgation of the country’s new constitution in 2010. The central findings reveal that although Kenyan voters are not lacking in information about the political nature of party conflicts and actually reject violence-wielding politicians, high levels of party replacement and attendant changes in coalitional arrangements tend to prevent them from holding these leaders to account. As a result, politicians from different parties have been able to organize and sponsor violence on a repeated basis.

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Playing with Fire
Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India
, pp. 76 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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