Kenya's March 2013 elections ushered in a popular system of devolved government that
represented the country's biggest political transformation since independence. Yet within …

Digital technologies are increasingly used in elections around the world. Where the
resources and capacity of the state are limited, some have argued that such technologies …

This article asks what Kenya's 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new
constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been absent from recent debates about comparative
long-run growth owing to the lack of data on aggregate economic performance before 1950 …

Kenya's 2010 constitutional reforms devolved the political system and included a quota
designed to secure a minimum threshold of women in government. While the 2017 elections …

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy'is one of the most quoted
claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic …

Considerable concern ahead of Kenya's 2017 elections that violence would mar the polls
was fuelled by a history of election-related violence, a failure to address many of the …

Since the early 1990s a growing number of constitution building processes in countries
transitioning from authoritarian rule or recovering from war or severe institutional crisis have …

Using a cross-sectional survey of two sampled counties in Kenya, this article analyses
whether social networking sites reflect social network heterogeneity. It then examines how …

Kenya's 2017 elections stand out as the most litigated and judicialised in the country's
electoral history. The election witnessed a litany of legal disputes over rules and regulations …