As scholars gradually extend social movement analysis to Africa, there is a need for comparative studies on the different ways civil society responds to different levels of repression. In Kenya, individuals and (mostly later) organizations responded from the late 1980s to 2002 with increasingly...

This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of development economics. The topic of the first three chapters is human capital in East Africa, whereas the topic of the fourth chapter is measurement of sub-national state capacity. The first chapter studies the effect...

This article argues that when a large part of a population has either limited or no access to social and economic resources as a result of government policy in redistributing revenue towards the capital, such concentrated redistribution at the centralised level may become a key factor in...