Dominic Burbidge

Dr Dominic Burbidge is a Researcher at the Department of Politics and Lecturer in African Studies, University of Oxford. He is author of The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy.

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The Dawn of Devolved Government in Kenya

The Dawn of Devolved Government in Kenya

In a landmark paper on Kenyan politics, Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman developed the term “bureaucratic-executive state” to describe how power came to be centralised in Kenya between the years 1952 and 1978. The over-centralisation ...