Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya. By Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman. African Affairs, Vol. 108, No. 430. 2008.
Sound analysis places the roots of the 2007 post-election crisis in Kenya within three historical trends: elite fragmentation, political liberalization, and state informalization. The article discusses the sequencing debate within the literature on democratization and argues that the processes of democratization and reform can be undertaken simultaneously but this twin approach requires institutional reforms not yet undertaken by a large number of African polities like Kenya.
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