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Elections and political legitimacy in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

David Throup
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Résumé

Bien qu'il ait commencé l'indépendence en tant que société profondément divisée après le trauma de Mau Mau, le Kenya a maintenu un des systèmes politiques ouverts en Afrique en dépit d'avoir officiellement un seul parti. Les élections nationales ont procuré un mécanisme par lequel du sang nouveau pourrait être incorporé au régime. Plus récemment des difficultés économiques grandissantes et l'insécurité du Président Moi ont fortement intensifié les tendances autoritaires. Les élections ont été de plus en plus truquées afin de supporter le groupe minoritaire d'où Moi tire son pouvoir. Comme partout ailleurs en Afrique le régime a cédé aux demandes en faveur d'une politique à partis multiples mais les premieres élections de ce genre ont produit une scène politique extrêmement fragmentée.

Type
‘One man, many votes’
Information
Africa , Volume 63 , Issue 3: Understanding Elections in Africa , July 1993 , pp. 371 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1993

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