Governing Kenya

Gedion Onyango is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has a B.A. degree (First Class) in Social Sciences from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, MPhil. Public Administration from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a PhD. in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is an Associate Editor and Board Member for SN Business & Economics Journal (Springer) and Editorial Board Member for the Journal on Financing for Development (University of Nairobi). His papers have been published in leading journals in Public Administration including International Journal of Public Administration, Public Organization Review, International Public Management Journal and Economic and Political Studies. He has also authored book chapters in both published and forthcoming monographs, among others, “Policy Visibility and Implementation in Public Administration”, in Ali Farazmand (ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, Springer Publishing 2019. Gedion has also been consulted by different organizations, including Transparency International.Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Florida, United States. After receiving his Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden, he began his political science and public administration career in the now defunct University of East Africa: Makerere (1965-66), Nairobi (1968-71) and Dar es Salaam (1971-77). Before joining the University of Florida in 1986, he served as Social Science Advisor and Representative in the Nairobi-based Ford Foundation’s Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, 1978-85.He co-edited his first book (with Robert H. Jackson and John J. Okumu) in 1970 titled Development Administration: The Kenyan Experience. He has authored over twenty books of his own, e.g. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania (1980), No Shortcuts to Progress (1983) and African Politics in Comparative Perspective (2006). He served as President of the U.S. African Studies Association 1995 and received its Distinguished Africanist Award in 2015. He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden and the African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi.

• Chapter One: Introduction, Gedion Onyango and Goran Hyden.- Chapter Two: Africa’s Governance Imperatives:How Kenya has Responded, Goran Hyden.- Chapter Three: The Global Nature of Policy Problems, Jacqueline M. Klopp and Abdullahi Boru Halakhe.- Chapter Four: The Powers of Agenda-Setting: The Role of Politicians and Experts, Winnie V. Mitullah.- Chapter Five: Legislative Policymaking in Kenya, Gedion Onyango.- Chapter Six: Political Parties and Public Policymaking, Solomon Owuoche.- Chapter Seven: The Politics of Implementation at County Level: Realizing Devolution in Kenya, Peter Wanyande.- Chapter Eight: Policy Implementation as Principal-Agent Problem: The Case of Kenya Wildlife Service, Parita Sureshchandra Shah.- Chapter Nine: Public Accountability: State-Society Relations in Kenya, Gedion Onyango.- Chapter Ten: Media and Policymaking in Kenya: Framing in Contested Public Spaces, George Ogola.- Chapter Eleven: The Politics of External Resource Mobilization: From Foreign Aid to Foreign Investment, Fred Jonyo.- Chapter Twelve: Taxation Systems and Public Policy in Kenya: Unpacking the Unwritten Tax Treaty Policy, Attiya Waris and Elvis Oyare.- Chapter Thirteen: Institutions and Policy Reform in Kenya: From State to Regime Focus, Patrick. O. Asingo.- Chapter Fourteen: Building and Reforming Institutions: From Technology Transfer to Policy Networks, Eric E.Otenyo.- Chapter Fifteen: Kenya: A Comparative East African Perspective, Goran Hyden and Gedion Onyango.- Chapter Sixteen: The Evolution of Policy Studies in Kenya, P. Anyang’ Nyong’o.-Chapter Seventeen: Teaching Public Policy in Kenya: Approaches and Current Issues, Patrick O. Alila and Goran Hyden.