Critique internationale
Presses de Sc. Po.

I.S.B.N.2-7246-3054-8
216 pages

p. 177 à 189
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no 30 2006/1

L’emprise partisane au Kenya : regard sur deux campagnes électorales locales (novembre 2001 et décembre 2002)

Mathieu Mérino
Indeed, the transition to a multiparty system in the early 1990s did not bring about the expected regime changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. This lack of interest also stems from the impression given by untrained observation of the party system: a dysfunction in relation to an accepted norm, that of Western political parties. This impression often springs from a lack of knowledge of local dynamics. Indeed, in Kenya, party practices attest to their success in gradually corralling the political and electoral fields, sometimes via contradictory actions. More precisely, analysis of their practices during the parliamentary elections of 2001 and 2002 in Eastern Province reveals how political parties have transformed potentially disintegrating tendencies into essential instruments in building up a monopolizing ascendancy over the electoral field. Today, party membership is a mandatory step in entering electoral competition. It has also become an increasingly decisive resource to achieve success at the polls.
• Mobilité et personnalisation : une régulation originale des partis
• La promotion partisane des candidatures


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