Titlebook: Governing Kenya; Public Policy in The Gedion Onyango,Goran Hyden Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive

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Introduction,ance is about both institutions and power, policy and politics. It also identifies two distinct approaches to governance, one that is normative, another that is functional. While the former has been dominant in the literature in the past three decades, there is a growing interest in the functional a

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,Africa’s Governance Imperatives: How Kenya Has Responded,erience of already developed countries. The challenge for the study of public policy in Africa is to find the most suitable ways of interpreting policymaking in countries that are structured so differently from those developed countries. This chapter focuses on the fundamental governance imperatives

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The Global Nature of Policy Problems,rience with globalization and power imbalances in the international system, unpacking the dynamics of potential dependencies, forms of foreign interference, and global cooperation within Kenyan public policymaking is critical. This chapter provides an overview of some of these global dimensions and

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The Powers of Agenda-Setting: The Role of Politicians and Experts, Kenya became independent in the early 1960s. It begins with an overview of how the issue has been covered in the literature focusing on how problem identification has evolved in response to changes in the policy environment, the relationship between technical experts and politicians, and finally ho

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Legislative Policymaking in Kenya,onstituent services. It highlights some of the unique aspects of legislatures in Africa and places the Kenyan development in comparative perspective, arguing like Barkan (2009) that Kenya has progressed more than other African countries. These achievements notwithstanding more still need to be done

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Political Parties and Public Policymaking,regions has generated political parties linked to specific economic interests and public policy positions. Under the quite different circumstances in Africa, notably social formations based on ethnic affiliation, political parties take on different characteristics. The chapter discusses the challeng

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The Politics of Implementation at County Level: Realizing Devolution in Kenya,ned that was adopted with the approval of the 2010 Constitution. Not surprisingly, like the case has been in other countries attempting devolution in Africa, for example, South Africa and Uganda, there have been problems in realizing the full promise of devolution. Politicians have not been ready to

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Policy Implementation as Principal-Agent Problem: The Case of Kenya Wildlife Service,fall short on implementation. Thus, understanding implementation is key to assessing policy. This takes on special significance in the contemporary Kenyan context where the 2010 Constitution has been adopted to make government policy efforts both more effective and more participatory. The issue of w

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Media and Policymaking in Kenya: Framing in Contested Public Spaces,ry of communicative action, originally developed by the German theorist, Jurgen Habermas, to demonstrate what a participatory approach to governance would entail. Using the case of the debates that preceded the 2018 Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Bill, it examines the challenges that Kenyan media a