Frank Holmquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 84389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Holmquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmquist |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMQUIST F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The lessons and legacies of the “Kenya debate”
The Kenya Debate concerned whether authentic capitalist development would take place on the periphery of the global economy. Capitalism has deepened, but prior internal developments, extreme inequality by social class, a profoundly changing international order at the time of the debate, and the subsequent predatory political behavior of the political class have set Kenya’s economy on a very problematic path. This chapter discusses core features o…
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
Kenya's Antipolitics
For reform to succeed, the range of effective interests with a voice at the table must extend beyond those of the political class—made up of top politicians and civil servants with remarkable staying power
Kenya's Postelection Euphoria—and Reality
Kenya has successfully run the gauntlet of political transition. But the road ahead is daunting and hazardous. ... Yet Kenya has major assets—a vital civil society that may be the key to a successful constitutional reform process over the next few months, ... and a population that is optimistic about the future
Kenya: Democracy, Decline, and Despair
The 1990s saw a great deal of positive political change in Kenya—most notably, relative freedom of speech and organization, [and] regular multiparty elections. ... But almost counterintuitively, the regime has shrunk into something of a corrupt and hollow shell. ... As the 2002 election begins to loom, echoes of the repression of the one-party era have begun to be felt
Stalling Political Change
Essay| April 01 1995 Stalling Political Change: Moi's Way in Kenya Frank Holmquist, Frank Holmquist Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Michael Ford Michael Ford Frank Holmquist and Michael Ford teach politics at Hampshire College. The authors wish to thank Mary Hoyer for her comments on a draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1995) 9…
Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s
The Structural Development of Kenya's Political Economy
Considerant simultanement l'economie, les classes et l'Etat, les AA. s'efforcent de comprendre la construction historique du Kenya et les forces sociales sous-tendant la lutte pour la democratie. Examinant la formation du pays depuis la colonisation, ils montrent comment les regimes successifs (colonialisme, presidences de Kenyatta puis de Moi) furent a l'origine des principaux conflits sociaux et structurerent la societe civile. L'economie kenya…
Fighting Two Sides: Kenyan Chiefs and Politicians, 1918-1940
Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya
Peasant-State Relations and the Social Base of Self-Help in Kenya
Peasant-state relations in developing countries are often a function of the nature and extent of stratification in peasant populations. Where there is a rigid class structure, the prospects for cooperation by members of the peasantry are low, and large landowners tend to ally themselves with the state to exploit the rural poor. Where, on the other hand, the nature of rural stratification is ambiguous, “small” and “middle” peasants are able to org…
The State and Economy in Kenya
Self-help: The state and peasant leverage in Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe literature on general peasant-state relations in history, in Africa today, or in Kenya in particular, tells us that the peasants have little systematic political leverage over state policy. While I broadly agree with this assessment, I would like to comment on an exception. The changing nature of self-help in Kenya is analysed in order to argue, first, that peasants, in collaboration with other classes in self-help, have had …
Defending Peasant Political Space in Independent Africa
Self-Reliance in Kenya: The Case of Harambee
The Kenyan Harambee Self-help movement offers an interesting example of "bottom-up" development of more than one decade, with little and often no government financial support. The movement appears to reflect pragmatic local priorities and offers an opportunity to test what local people "really want". Harambee self-help existed before the ideological calls for self-reliant development, and raises the issue whether in fact ideological build-up can …
Peasant-State Relations and the Social Base of Self-Help in Kenya
Peasant-state relations in developing countries are often a function of the nature and extent of stratification in peasant populations. Where there is a rigid class structure, the prospects for cooperation by members of the peasantry are low, and large landowners tend to ally themselves with the state to exploit the rural poor. Where, on the other hand, the nature of rural stratification is ambiguous, “small” and “middle” peasants are able to org…
Self-help: The state and peasant leverage in Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe literature on general peasant-state relations in history, in Africa today, or in Kenya in particular, tells us that the peasants have little systematic political leverage over state policy. While I broadly agree with this assessment, I would like to comment on an exception. The changing nature of self-help in Kenya is analysed in order to argue, first, that peasants, in collaboration with other classes in self-help, have had …
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
The Structural Development of Kenya's Political Economy
Considerant simultanement l'economie, les classes et l'Etat, les AA. s'efforcent de comprendre la construction historique du Kenya et les forces sociales sous-tendant la lutte pour la democratie. Examinant la formation du pays depuis la colonisation, ils montrent comment les regimes successifs (colonialisme, presidences de Kenyatta puis de Moi) furent a l'origine des principaux conflits sociaux et structurerent la societe civile. L'economie kenya…
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
Fighting Two Sides: Kenyan Chiefs and Politicians, 1918-1940
The State and Economy in Kenya
Self-Reliance in Kenya: The Case of Harambee
The Kenyan Harambee Self-help movement offers an interesting example of "bottom-up" development of more than one decade, with little and often no government financial support. The movement appears to reflect pragmatic local priorities and offers an opportunity to test what local people "really want". Harambee self-help existed before the ideological calls for self-reliant development, and raises the issue whether in fact ideological build-up can …
Defending Peasant Political Space in Independent Africa
Self-help: The state and peasant leverage in Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe literature on general peasant-state relations in history, in Africa today, or in Kenya in particular, tells us that the peasants have little systematic political leverage over state policy. While I broadly agree with this assessment, I would like to comment on an exception. The changing nature of self-help in Kenya is analysed in order to argue, first, that peasants, in collaboration with other classes in self-help, have had …
The State and Economy in Kenya
Peasant-State Relations and the Social Base of Self-Help in Kenya
Peasant-state relations in developing countries are often a function of the nature and extent of stratification in peasant populations. Where there is a rigid class structure, the prospects for cooperation by members of the peasantry are low, and large landowners tend to ally themselves with the state to exploit the rural poor. Where, on the other hand, the nature of rural stratification is ambiguous, “small” and “middle” peasants are able to org…
Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya
Fighting Two Sides: Kenyan Chiefs and Politicians, 1918-1940
Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s
The Structural Development of Kenya's Political Economy
Considerant simultanement l'economie, les classes et l'Etat, les AA. s'efforcent de comprendre la construction historique du Kenya et les forces sociales sous-tendant la lutte pour la democratie. Examinant la formation du pays depuis la colonisation, ils montrent comment les regimes successifs (colonialisme, presidences de Kenyatta puis de Moi) furent a l'origine des principaux conflits sociaux et structurerent la societe civile. L'economie kenya…
Stalling Political Change
Essay| April 01 1995 Stalling Political Change: Moi's Way in Kenya Frank Holmquist, Frank Holmquist Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Michael Ford Michael Ford Frank Holmquist and Michael Ford teach politics at Hampshire College. The authors wish to thank Mary Hoyer for her comments on a draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1995) 9…
Kenya: Democracy, Decline, and Despair
The 1990s saw a great deal of positive political change in Kenya—most notably, relative freedom of speech and organization, [and] regular multiparty elections. ... But almost counterintuitively, the regime has shrunk into something of a corrupt and hollow shell. ... As the 2002 election begins to loom, echoes of the repression of the one-party era have begun to be felt
Kenya's Postelection Euphoria—and Reality
Kenya has successfully run the gauntlet of political transition. But the road ahead is daunting and hazardous. ... Yet Kenya has major assets—a vital civil society that may be the key to a successful constitutional reform process over the next few months, ... and a population that is optimistic about the future
Kenya's Antipolitics
For reform to succeed, the range of effective interests with a voice at the table must extend beyond those of the political class—made up of top politicians and civil servants with remarkable staying power
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
The lessons and legacies of the “Kenya debate”
The Kenya Debate concerned whether authentic capitalist development would take place on the periphery of the global economy. Capitalism has deepened, but prior internal developments, extreme inequality by social class, a profoundly changing international order at the time of the debate, and the subsequent predatory political behavior of the political class have set Kenya’s economy on a very problematic path. This chapter discusses core features o…
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