Governing Kenya

'A major contribution to comparative policy analysis highlighting the commonalities and differences that Kenya shares with other nations in theory and practice. Governing Kenya will remain a key text for years to come'.

-Michael Howlett, Burnaby Mountain Chair of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

'Governing Kenya integrates public policy theory with extensive examples to provide a valuable portrait of this important African country. An invaluable contribution to the literature on public policy in Africa'.

-B. Guy Peters, Professor of Comparative Governance, University of Pittsburgh, USA

'A superb example of development scholarship which sets aside 'best practice' nostrums and focuses on governance challenges specific to time and place while holding on to a comparative perspective. Useful to scholars and practitioners across developing areas!'

Brian Levy, Professor, Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa

'This book on public policy in Kenya gives the reader theoretical and practical hooks critical to the analysis of how the 2010 Constitution is implemented'.

-Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court, Republic of Kenya, 2011-2016.

'This book is an exploration of important deliberations that help us understand public policy theories and their application within a specific African setting'.

-Wilson Muna, Lecturer of Public Policy, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

This book is authored by renowned scholars in Africa to understand how Kenya is governed. It addresses three pertinent questions: (1) how are policies made where change is demanded, but institutional legacies resist? (2) how are power and authority shared among institutional actors? and, (3) how do increasingly complex policy problems involving multiple stakeholders affect policymaking? It provides an updated and relevant foundation for teaching public policy in Kenya from a comparative perspective while also serving as a useful guide for politicians, government servants, civil society, and businesses on how Kenya is governed.

Gedion Onyangöis Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Florida, USA.

Auteur
Gedion Onyango is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has a B.A. degree (First Class) in Social Sciences from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, MPhil. Public Administration from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a PhD. in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is an Associate Editor and Board Member for SN Business & Economics Journal (Springer) and Editorial Board Member for the Journal on Financing for Development (University of Nairobi). His papers have been published in leading journals in Public Administration including International Journal of Public Administration, Public Organization Review, International Public Management Journal and Economic and Political Studies. He has also authored book chapters in both published and forthcoming monographs, among others, Policy Visibility and Implementation in Public Administration, in Ali Farazmand (ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, Springer Publishing 2019. Gedion has also been consulted by different organizations, including Transparency International.

Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Florida, United States. After receiving his Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden, he began his political science and public administration career in the now defunct University of East Africa: Makerere (1965-66), Nairobi (1968-71) and Dar es Salaam (1971-77). Before joining the University of Florida in 1986, he served as Social Science Advisor and Representative in the Nairobi-based Ford Foundation's Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, 1978-85.He co-edited his first book (with Robert H. Jackson and John J. Okumu) in 1970 titled Development Administration: The Kenyan Experience. He has authored over twenty books of his own, e.g. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania (1980), No Shortcuts to Progress (1983) and African Politics in Comparative Perspective (2006). He served as President of the U.S. African Studies Association 1995 and received its Distinguished Africanist Award in 2015. He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden and the African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi.

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'A major contribution to comparative policy analysis highlighting the commonalities and differences that Kenya shares with other nations in theory and practice. Governing Kenya will remain a key text for years to come'.

Michael Howlett, Burnaby Mountain Chair of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

*'Governing Kenya *integrates public policy theory with extensive examples to provide a valuable portrait of this important African country. An invaluable contribution to the literature on public policy in Africa'.

B. Guy Peters, Professor of Comparative Governance, University of Pittsburgh, USA

'A superb example of development scholarship which sets aside 'best practice' nostrums and focuses on governance challenges specific to time and place while holding on to a comparative perspective. Useful to scholars and practitioners across developing areas!'

Brian Levy, Professor, Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa

'This book on public policy in Kenya gives the reader theoretical and practical hooks critical to the analysis of how the 2010 Constitution is implemented'.

Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court, Republic of Kenya, 2011-2016.

'This book is an exploration of important deliberations that help us understand public policy theories and their application within a specific African setting'.

Wilson Muna, Lecturer of Public Policy, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

This book is authored by renowned scholars in Africa to understand how Kenya is governed. It addresses three pertinent questions: (1) how are policies made where change is demanded, but institutional legacies resist? (2) how are power and authority shared among institutional actors? and, (3) how do increasingly complex policy problems involving multiple stakeholders affect policymaking? It provides an updated and relevant foundation for teaching public policy in Kenya from a comparative perspective while also serving as a useful guide for politicians, government servants, civil society, and businesses on how Kenya is governed.

Gedion Onyangois Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Goran Hydenis Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Florida, USA.

Résumé
This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective. The book's public policy approach addresses three general and pertinent questions: (1) how are policies made in a political context where change is called for, but institutional legacies tend to stand in the way? (2) how are power and authority shared among institutional actors in government and society? and, (3) how effective is policymaking at a time when policy problems ar…