Mutuma Ruteere
Biographic Data
| ID | 643787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mutuma Ruteere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mutuma |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruteere |
| SIGNATURE | RUTEERE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kenya's 2017 elections
This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly important: the adoption of a 50% + 1 threshold for the presidential election; the devolution of power to 47 county governments; and the introduction of a Supreme Court with the right to hear presidential electoral p…
Violence, security and the policing of Kenya's 2017 elections
Considerable concern ahead of Kenya's 2017 elections that violence would mar the polls was fuelled by a history of election-related violence, a failure to address many of the underlying causes of violence, a highly polarized political environment, and opposition claims that the polls would be rigged. More specifically, there were fears that a dispute over the presidential election could lead to ethnic violence between supporters of President Uhur…
Saving Africa From Dangerous Ideas’
In the last two decades, no other ideas have gained the totemic status that ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ have attained in global and African public policy and political discourses. From Cameroon to Kenya, democracy and human rights were the rallying cries of the 1990s reform movements that have radically reshaped the politics of most African states. While ridiculed and rejected as Western impositions by many African leaders (many of them relics…
More than political tools
This paper examines how the Kenyan police responded to the 2007/08 crisis of post-election violence. It provides a critical re-evaluation of the well-known argument of the police being political instruments of the regime of the day. In addition, it develops the argument that the view of the police as mere tools of the political leadership is too limited an explanation of police conduct in responding to ethnic and election violence. It suggests th…
Politicization as a strategy for recognition and enforcement of human rights in Kenya
Bringing Politics Back In
Democratizing Security or Decentralizing Repression? The ambiguities of community policing in Kenya
International audience
Democratizing Security or Decentralizing Repression? The ambiguities of community policing in Kenya
International audience
Kenya's 2017 elections
This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly important: the adoption of a 50% + 1 threshold for the presidential election; the devolution of power to 47 county governments; and the introduction of a Supreme Court with the right to hear presidential electoral p…
More than political tools
This paper examines how the Kenyan police responded to the 2007/08 crisis of post-election violence. It provides a critical re-evaluation of the well-known argument of the police being political instruments of the regime of the day. In addition, it develops the argument that the view of the police as mere tools of the political leadership is too limited an explanation of police conduct in responding to ethnic and election violence. It suggests th…
Violence, security and the policing of Kenya's 2017 elections
Considerable concern ahead of Kenya's 2017 elections that violence would mar the polls was fuelled by a history of election-related violence, a failure to address many of the underlying causes of violence, a highly polarized political environment, and opposition claims that the polls would be rigged. More specifically, there were fears that a dispute over the presidential election could lead to ethnic violence between supporters of President Uhur…
Democratizing Security or Decentralizing Repression? The ambiguities of community policing in Kenya
International audience
Bringing Politics Back In
Politicization as a strategy for recognition and enforcement of human rights in Kenya
Saving Africa From Dangerous Ideas’
In the last two decades, no other ideas have gained the totemic status that ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ have attained in global and African public policy and political discourses. From Cameroon to Kenya, democracy and human rights were the rallying cries of the 1990s reform movements that have radically reshaped the politics of most African states. While ridiculed and rejected as Western impositions by many African leaders (many of them relics…
More than political tools
This paper examines how the Kenyan police responded to the 2007/08 crisis of post-election violence. It provides a critical re-evaluation of the well-known argument of the police being political instruments of the regime of the day. In addition, it develops the argument that the view of the police as mere tools of the political leadership is too limited an explanation of police conduct in responding to ethnic and election violence. It suggests th…
Kenya's 2017 elections
This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly important: the adoption of a 50% + 1 threshold for the presidential election; the devolution of power to 47 county governments; and the introduction of a Supreme Court with the right to hear presidential electoral p…
Violence, security and the policing of Kenya's 2017 elections
Considerable concern ahead of Kenya's 2017 elections that violence would mar the polls was fuelled by a history of election-related violence, a failure to address many of the underlying causes of violence, a highly polarized political environment, and opposition claims that the polls would be rigged. More specifically, there were fears that a dispute over the presidential election could lead to ethnic violence between supporters of President Uhur…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works)