Analysis of the Politico-Ecology of Electoral Management Towards Kenya's 2007 Post-Election Violence

Abstract

By Using Political ecology as an expression which is contemporary yet with no clear and settled meaning, this study seeks to analyze the politico-ecology of Electoral Management towards Kenya’s 2007 Election Violence. Political ecology used herein refers to taking a political view within the context of electoral management especially on the Post-2007 election violence. Such analysis can be useful in understanding many interrelating variables in this mix. The study construes in its analysis that the violence was not a pop-up event, the historical behind the same activity show a progressive trend which players could have acted on to determine a desired outcome. Certain causal-effect objectives guided this study; evaluation of causes of the 2007 Post Election Violence (PEV), examining the effects of 2007 Post-Election Violence in Eldoret East District, and the purpose of the study itself. This research took an analytical descriptive method. It applied Lisa Blaydes trajectory of Authoritarian Elections and Elite Management Theory and employed content analysis framework. It was found out among others that post-election violence undermines stability of states and to a great extent in regionalizing age interferes with inter-state relations.