Is Kenyan Coalition Politics left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Kenyan Coalition Politics scores +04 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +05. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Kenyan Coalition Politics authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Kenyan Coalition Politics scores +01. The supreme court annulled a presidential election in 2017, the first such ruling in Africa, and the rerun proceeded.

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Kenyan Coalition Politics

UDA / Azimio · 2002– · Kenya · Big-Tent Clientelist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

+04ECmarket

+05CUtraditional

+01AUmonist

+03SCcentral

+05IDascriptive

−05CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Coalitions assembled around ethnic arithmetic and personality rather than around programme, with real electoral competition between them.

Economic model

Infrastructure debt, agricultural exports, a large informal sector, mobile money penetration among the highest in the world.

Organisation of powers

The supreme court annulled a presidential election in 2017, the first such ruling in Africa, and the rerun proceeded.

Reading note

The 2007–08 post-election violence killed over a thousand people; the 2010 constitution devolved substantial power to counties in response.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04

Coded +4: infrastructure debt and agricultural exports.

Documented act or statutePublic debt rose above 70% of GDP by 2023, driving the 2024 finance bill protests.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +05

Coded +5: religious conservatism across both blocs.

Documented act or statuteSame-sex relations remain criminalised and the high court upheld the law in 2019.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +01

Coded +1: genuine competition with a landmark judicial check.

Documented act or statuteThe supreme court annulled the 2017 presidential result for irregularities, the first such ruling in Africa; the rerun was boycotted.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +03

Coded +3: substantial devolution created after electoral violence.

Documented act or statuteThe 2010 constitution created 47 counties with their own governors, assemblies and guaranteed revenue share.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +05

Coded +5: ethnic coalition arithmetic as the organising principle of national politics.

Documented act or statuteThe 2007–08 post-election violence killed over 1,100 people and displaced around 600,000 along ethnic lines.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −05

Coded −5: electoral since 2002, with a violent exception in 2007.

Documented act or statutePower transferred by election in 2002, 2013 and 2022.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Kenya

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Kenyan Coalition Politics. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/kenya_blocs/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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