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article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing … reasons for the absence of a ban in Kenya. The analysis shows that the laws on particularistic parties have actually been … not ensured the emergence of aggregative parties with a national following in Tanzania and Uganda. In Kenya on the other …
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …. A period of ethnic conflict following Kenya's 2007 election led to a sharp increase in discrimination. In response, the …
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Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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As members of the ethnic group to which the American President's paternal family belongs, Luo people in Kenya and in …-political developments in Kenya throughout the twentieth century. Luo identity has been primarily constituted within a diasporic context …
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“White Terror” (2013), a BBC documentary details colonial atrocities in Kenya and thereafter state of emergency. I … structures were inherited in post-independence Kenya. The documentary based on Harvard's History Professor Caroline Elkins (2005 …-political conflicts in Kenya can be linked to misappropriations in the 1954 Swynerton land tenure reforms. British occupation of native …
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violence using a new dataset measuring ethnic composition and violence across approximately 700 small localities in Kenya …'s Rift Valley Province during Kenya's 2007/08 post-election crisis. Because segregation is likely endogenous to violence, I … draw on Kenya's history of land settlement to instrument for segregation. I also demonstrate that it is unlikely that local …
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This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya's political parties and its party system … failed to bridge the country's dominant ethnic cleavages. Consequently, all of Kenya's significant parties represent ethnic …
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design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary …
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