State Politics and Public Policy in Eastern Africa

Gedion Onyango is Lecturer of Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Nairobi, Kenya

• Part I: CONCEPTUALISING STATE POLITICS IN Africa.- CHAPTER 1: Towards the Africa We Want! The changing state politics in Africa.-CHAPTER 2: State Politics and Public Policy in Africa: A State Transformation Perspective.- CHAPTER 3: Divergent Identity and State Formation in Eastern Africa: Legitimacy and Policy Performance.- CHAPTER 4: The "Boomerang Effect": Lessons Learned from Power-Sharing in Kenya and Zimbabwe.- Part II: STATE FORMATION AND POLITICS OF CONSOLIDATION IN EASTERN.- CHAPTER 5: Secessionist claims and state-building: The emergence and trends in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 6: Ethio-Sudanese Relations: Revisiting Civil Wars, Refugeeism and Foreign Policy in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 7: Confronting Terrorism and Violent Extremism in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 8: The People's Defence Forces (Military) and State-Building Politics in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 9: The Past and Present of Public Sector Reforms in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 10: Imperilled Welfare States of Eastern Africa: A comparative analysis of the Policy legacies of Taxation politics in Kenya and Uganda.- Part III: POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION: CRAFTING PUBLIC POLICY AND CITIZENSHIP SPACES.- CHAPTER 11: Social Cohesion, Politics and Governance in East Africa: Evidence from Afrobarometer Surveys.- CHAPTER 12: Politics of Social Protection: The Visible, Invisible and Ignored Citizens.- CHAPTER 13: How and why women Legislators miss out on Legislative Leadership roles: Gender Equality Policies and Legislative influence in Kenya.- CHAPTER 14: Civil Society Organizations' Policy Entrepreneurship roles in Kenya and Uganda's Housing Policies.- CHAPTER 15: Science and Technology and Development in Eastern Africa – from rhetoric to actions: Citizens' agency in the implementation of STIs Policies.- CHAPTER 16: Climate Change Adoptions in Eastern Africa: The Challenges and Prospects of Climate Change Adaptation Policies.- Part IV: REGIONAL INTEGRATION, DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN EASTERN AFRICA.- CHAPTER 17: Intergovernmentalism vs State-centrism in supranational governance: The Eastern Africa Economic Integration in Perspective.- CHAPTER 18: Is the African Continental Fee-Trade Area (AfCFTA) a Friend or Foe of East African Development?.- CHAPTER 19: A Governance Discourse in Chinese's Development Finance Assistance in Eastern Africa.- CHAPTER 20: The evolution of the political dimension of EU Co-operation with Eastern Africa.