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African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development / Edition 1
by David K. Leonard
David K. Leonard
- ISBN-10:
- 0520070763
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520070769
- Pub. Date:
- 03/14/1991
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0520070763
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520070769
- Pub. Date:
- 03/14/1991
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
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African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development / Edition 1
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Overview
For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commitment.What accounts for these Kenyan successes? In this innovative study, David Leonard illustrates the way public policy is made and implemented in Kenya by focusing on four public officials who have had a great impact on rural development. He skillfully weaves his analyses of Kenya's political, economic, and administrative systems into evocative biographical portraits of Charles Karanja, General Manager of the Kenya Tea Development Authority, Harris Mule, administrative head of Finance and Planning, Ishmael Muriithi, head of the Veterinary Department, and Simeon Nyachae, Cabinet Secretary and chief of the Civil Service. The result is a fascinating glimpse of Kenyan political life from the inside, set in the context of the historical and social forces that have shaped that country's government.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520070769 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 03/14/1991 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 390 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.97(d) |
About the Author
David K. Leonard, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the African Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Reaching the Peasant Farmer: Organization Theory and Practice in Kenya (1977). He is also the editor of Rural Administration in Kenya: A Critical Appraisal (1973) and the coeditor of Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor: Decentralization and Organizational Linkages (1982). Having taught for many years at African universities and served as a management advisor to the Kenyan government, he now consults for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | xiii | |
List of Tables | xv | |
Preface | xvii | |
Abbreviations and Glossary | xxi | |
Abbreviated Chronology of Political Events in Kenya | xxiii | |
List of Principal Persons in the Book | xxv | |
Simplified Family Trees of the Administrators Studied | xxviii | |
Acknowledgments | xxx | |
1. | Introduction: Individuals, Institutions, and Interests | 1 |
An Example of Successful Management | 1 | |
Why This Book? | 2 | |
Successful Managers | 3 | |
Rural Development Policies | 4 | |
The Nature and Evolution of the Kenyan State | 6 | |
A Modest Theoretical Framework | 7 | |
Four Public Servants | 10 | |
A Note on Methodology | 11 | |
A Preview of the Book | 13 | |
2. | The Foundation | 15 |
Everything Has a History | 15 | |
Disruption | 16 | |
The Agricultural Economy | 18 | |
The Missions | 21 | |
Colonial African Administration | 26 | |
The Emerging African Social Structure | 34 | |
Monopoly and Control | 36 | |
Conclusions | 38 | |
3. | Growing Up and Out of Colonialism | 39 |
Charles Kibe Karanja | 39 | |
Mau Mau from Kiambu | 46 | |
Simeon Nyachae | 47 | |
The Political Struggle for Independence | 51 | |
Ishmael Muriithi | 54 | |
Dan Mbogo | 60 | |
Harris Mutio Mule | 63 | |
Conclusions | 69 | |
4. | Independence and the Emerging Class Structure | 73 |
The Political Background to the Republic | 73 | |
The Colonial Class Structure | 73 | |
Ethnic Tensions | 77 | |
Africanization of the Civil Service | 81 | |
Africanization and the Four Administrators | 82 | |
Did "Tribalism" Overlay Africanization in the Civil Service? | 86 | |
Africanizing Land Ownership | 90 | |
Class Formation and the Matajiri | 93 | |
Administrators and Land | 95 | |
Africanizing Commerce and Industry | 97 | |
Interests: The Interaction of Class and Ethnicity | 100 | |
5. | Nyachae and Administrative Power in the Kenyatta State | 103 |
The Institutional Legacy | 103 | |
Nyachae and the Provincial Administration | 106 | |
Administration of Land | 107 | |
Political Representation and Control | 110 | |
The Balance of Administrative and Political Power | 113 | |
The Weberian Theory of Administrative Power Applied to Kenya | 117 | |
Conclusions | 123 | |
6. | Karanja and the Kenya Tea Development Authority | 125 |
Success and Institutional Inheritance | 125 | |
Karanja's Rise through the Ranks | 129 | |
Karanja's General Managership | 133 | |
The KTDA Expands into Factory Management | 137 | |
Conclusions | 142 | |
7. | Muriithi and the Dairy Industry | 145 |
The Creation of a Smallholder Dairy Industry | 145 | |
Dairy Marketing | 147 | |
Artificial Insemination | 150 | |
Veterinary Care | 156 | |
What of Integration? | 160 | |
Beef Production | 163 | |
Conclusions | 165 | |
8. | The Moi Presidencies and Their Impact on Karanja and Muriithi | 168 |
The Succession | 168 | |
Bureaucratic Power under the New Regime | 169 | |
Karanja's Fall from Grace | 171 | |
The "Second" Moi Presidency | 176 | |
Muriithi Presides over the Decline in Veterinary Services | 177 | |
Conclusions | 181 | |
9. | Rural Development, Decentralization, and Mule's | 183 |
Apprenticeship Equity and the ILO Report | 183 | |
Rural Development | 190 | |
Decentralization | 196 | |
The Special Rural Development Program | 196 | |
The Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Program | 198 | |
Conclusions | 200 | |
10. | Nyachae, Mule, District Focus, and Agriculture | 202 |
District Focus | 203 | |
Agricultural Prices and Markets | 209 | |
Economic Management in Adversity | 215 | |
Conclusions | 218 | |
11. | The Unofficial Lives | 220 |
Workaholics | 221 | |
Sons of Their Villages | 222 | |
Patronage | 224 | |
Harambee, Patronage, and Politics | 228 | |
Nyachae's Political Downfall | 233 | |
Ill-gotten Gains? | 236 | |
Class and the Next Generation | 242 | |
Conclusions | 246 | |
12. | African Managerial Success: Conclusions about Individuals | 248 |
The Varieties of Management | 248 | |
Public Policies | 249 | |
Organizational Leadership | 249 | |
Internal Administration | 250 | |
Bureaucratic Hygiene | 250 | |
Can Managers Affect the Performance of Their Organizations? | 251 | |
The Policy Responsibilities of Management | 252 | |
Can Individual Managers Make a Difference? | 255 | |
The Attributes of Successful Kenyan Management | 256 | |
Political Connections and Organizational Autonomy | 257 | |
Professional Concern with Public Policy and Organizational Mission | 259 | |
Professional Integrity | 260 | |
Access to Donor Resources | 261 | |
Africanization | 262 | |
Being a "Nationalist" | 264 | |
Staff Management | 265 | |
Competition and Management Information Systems | 266 | |
Delegation | 267 | |
Risk Taking | 268 | |
Drive | 269 | |
Selection Policy and Organizational Performance | 269 | |
Problems with the Current Kenyan Analysis | 269 | |
Kenyatta's Selection Policies | 270 | |
Moi's Personnel Policies | 271 | |
Internationalizing Professionalism | 272 | |
Conclusions | 273 | |
13. | The State and Administrative Development: Conclusions about Institutions and Interests | 275 |
The State | 275 | |
The Political Forces Directing the State | 277 | |
The State as a "Commons" | 279 | |
The Forces Directing the State from Within | 283 | |
Socialization | 284 | |
Institutionalization | 288 | |
Political Responsiveness | 292 | |
The Strong State | 295 | |
What of This Can Be Generalized? | 297 | |
Appendix A. | Ethnic Determinants of Civil Service Promotions | 303 |
Appendix B. | Bureaucratic Influences and the Regional Allocation of Government Services | 306 |
Anecdotes and Questions | 307 | |
Methodology for the Study of Influence | 308 | |
Regional Allocations: The Dependent Variable | 312 | |
Categories of Cause: The Independent Variables | 313 | |
The Quantitative Evidence | 315 | |
Appendix C. | Persons Interviewed | 330 |
Notes | 337 | |
Index of Persons | 363 | |
Index of Subjects | 369 |
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