"Ethnic Clashes" and Winning Elections: The Case of Kenya's Electoral Despotism

Klopp, Jacqueline M.

doi:10.2307/486297

Cited by 44 publications

(45 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, many contemporary democracies experience an intensification of political violence around election times. There are a range of potential explanations for such violence, relating to the nature of the actors participating in the election, the type of electoral institutions, and the stakes involved in the election (Höglund, 2009;Klopp, 2001;Laakso, 2007;Mehler, 2007;Wilkinson, 2004). 4 Electoral violence is a type of violence which is distinguished from other forms of political violence by its timing and targets.…”

Section: Electoral Violence: Understanding Its Causes and Influencementioning

confidence: 98%

Paying the Price for Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka

Höglund¹,

Piyarathne²

2009

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

How are societies influenced by electoral violence? Electoral violence has become an endemic feature of many countries. Yet we know little about the implications of such violence and the effect it has on individuals and their relationship to politics. This paper analyses electoral violence at the village level in central Sri Lanka, to understand the local dynamics involved. Several conclusions are drawn about electoral violence, its victims, and influence on politics. For instance, it was found that violence directly influenced political participation, voter turnout and voters' mobility. Violence also had profound effects on the villagers' perceptions about politics, with fear and frustration lingering for years after the violence occurred.

show abstract

Section: Electoral Violence: Understanding Its Causes and Influencementioning

confidence: 98%

Paying the Price for Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka

Höglund¹,

Piyarathne²

2009

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In 1914, the northern Maasai and other pastoralists from this area were deported to southern reserves in Narok and Kajaido, and subsequent legislation forced the remaining northern inhabitants onto the driest, most marginal portion of their former land (Herren 1989a). The creation and enforcement of Maasai land rights under British colonial rule also led to the creation of new ethnic identities to fill the categories marked out by the state, thereby hardening previously fluid ethnic boundaries (Blewett 1995;Klopp 2001;Waller 1984). The sharper territorial boundaries that resulted in the erosion of social institutions essential to making the pastoral commons work had both ideological and material consequences and created hardship for those at the margins, whose freedom of movement and resource access were severely curtailed (Blewett 1995;Campbell 1993;Waller 1984).…”

Section: Institutional Factors Shaping Rangeland Access and Adaptive mentioning

confidence: 99%

Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons

German¹,

Unks

King

2016

The Journal of Peasant Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The dynamics of customary land rights and displacement among east African pastoralists have been the subject of extensive scholarly inquiry. Displacement to make way for other land uses, government-led privatization schemes, endogenous subdivision to defend land against outsiders, and progressive enclosure of private land in the context of the recent 'land rush' are some of the documented trajectories of land tenure change. Less explored is how exogenous authority systems gain traction within common property regimes to re-shape the contours of property. Laikipia, Kenya presents an ideal context for this research given the uniquely ambitious effort to conserve globally significant wildlife on private land. We focus on a group ranch owned collectively by Maa-speaking pastoralists for whom formal title was secured with the support of outside actors vested in conservation, and coupled with efforts to provide financial incentives for conservation. Findings suggest the new governance structure established in the context of land titling has become a pathway through which outside authority gains traction -with consequences for property, sovereignty and the traction of green agendas. Findings deepen understanding of how shifting authority shapes processes of alienation and legitimation, and contribute to ongoing debates about land grabs, tenure formalization and neoliberal approaches to conservation.

show abstract

“…Politicians alleged that outsiders had stolen and polluted their land, dominated them economically and politically and renamed their land with 'foreign' names instead of merging with the local communities. 20 They called on youths not to allow outsiders to register as voters (Klopp 2001). Violence broke out in Nandi on 29 October 1991 over a land dispute and displaced over 300,000 people from the Rift Valley, western district and Nyanza (HRW 1993).…”

Section: Displacement and The 1990s Transition To Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of displacement in multiparty Kenya

Kamungi

2009

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

"Ethnic Clashes" and Winning Elections: The Case of Kenya's Electoral Despotism

Cited by 44 publications

References 0 publications

Paying the Price for Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka

Paying the Price for Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka

Green appropriations through shifting contours of authority and property on a pastoralist commons

The politics of displacement in multiparty Kenya

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About