Elements of Consociational Democracy in Kenya
作者:
DIRK BERG‐SCHLOSSER,
期刊:
European Journal of Political Research
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 95-109
ISSN:0304-4130
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1985.tb00111.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThis paper attempts to apply and test some of the major propositions advanced by the ‘consociational school’ of democratic theory to the case of a Third World country, Kenya. These propositions concern both the specific, highly fragmented ‘plural’ social bases of politics and particular institutional arrangements (such as a ‘grand coalition’, proportional representation, etc.), Kenya is shown to be an interesting, though somewhat ‘deviant’, case in this regard. The analysis is based on available published sources, official documents and data from a general population survey conducted by the author. The concluding section discusses some of the inherent constraints in the Kenyan case and indicates some of the more general limitations of the concept of consociat
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