‘Holding against the tide’: Exploring the role of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya
Download pdf Working paper 168 Matthew Tyce This paper explores the factors that have influenced the performance of the Central
The politics of social protection in Kenya: State capacity, political competition and social pension registration in Marsabit County
Download pdf Working paper 166 Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Alesha Porisky and Patrick Mutinda Muthui In 2017, the government of Kenya
Alesha Porisky
Role Alesha is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, an incoming professor
‘KRA has the capacity, but it is kept on a tight leash’: The politics of tax administration and policy in Kenya
Working paper 159 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper examines the factors that have influenced the performance of the Kenya
The distributional politics of social transfers in Kenya
Working paper 155 Download pdf Alesha Porisky This paper examines the politics of distributing social transfers across four diverse counties
The Kenyan National Treasury: A ‘pocket of effectiveness’ curtailed
Working paper 150 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper examines the factors that have shaped the ability of Kenya’s National
Kenya's response to Covid-19
29 April 2020 Matthew Tyce Along with several other African countries, Kenya has so far opted
Competition, fragmentation and ‘resource factionalism’: The politics of governing oil and gas in Kenya
Working paper 140 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper explores how Kenya’s political settlement has shaped the governance of its
The politics of central banking in Kenya: Balancing political and developmental interests
Working paper 130 Download pdf Matthew Tyce This paper analyses the performance of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) in
African development and the marginalisation of domestic capitalists
Working paper 115 Download pdf Pritish Behuria The revival of industrial policy discussions has operated in parallel to reports of
The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya
Working paper 87 Download pdf Fredrick Wanyama and Anna McCord This paper discusses the role of Kenya’s political settlement in
The political challenge of turning transnational social protection goals into effective national policy coalitions
30 September 2015 Earlier this month at the Development Studies Association meeting, ESID researchers working on our social protection project
Researching the political economy of social protection in Africa
30 March 2015 By Tom Lavers When and why do states take a direct interest in the welfare of their
Dr Anna McCord
Role Anna McCord is a sociologist with a PhD in economics and over 25 years experience working in international development.
Professor Fredrick Wanyama
Role Fredrick Wanyama is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs at Kisii University, Kenya, and Associate Professor of Political Science at
The political economy of social protection
Phase 1 - the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa Objectives This research analyses the political economy of