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  • 13 - Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya

  • from Part IV - National Approaches to Disinformation
  • Edited by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., University of Alabama, András Koltay, National University of Public Service (Hungary), Charlotte Garden, University of Minnesota
  • Book:
    Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 311-342
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    Despite Kenya’s transformative and progressive 2010 Constitution, it is still grappling with a hybrid democracy, displaying both authoritarian and democratic traits. Scholars attribute this status to several factors, with a prominent one being the domination of the political order and wielding of political power by a few individuals and families with historical ties to patronage networks and informal power structures. The persisting issues of electoral fraud, widespread corruption, media harassment, weak rule of law and governance challenges further contribute to the hybrid democracy status. While the 2010 Constitution aims to restructure the state and enhance democratic institutions, the transition process is considered incomplete, especially since the judiciary’s role of judicial review is mostly faced with the difficult task of countering democratic regression.