The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the Bureaucratic-executive state, 1952-78

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 33, Issue 107, 2006, Pages 11-31

  Branch, Daniel ^a   Cheeseman, Nicholas ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; COLONIALISM; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; POST-COLONIALISM;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33645839578     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: 17401720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056240600671183     Document Type: Article

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