Episode 5: Dominic Burbidge discusses his new book "An Experiment In Devolution, National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State." Following the introduction of a new constitution in 2010, Kenya has implemented one of the most radical and far-reaching decentralization programs in Africa. This podcast outlines the events leading up to the new constitution, as well as the ramifications of these sweeping reforms. Dominic Burbidge is a Research Associate of the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government in the Faculty of Law. He received his doctorate in Oriel College, University of Oxford, and his masters in St Antony's College, before working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Princeton University and then a Departmental Lecturer in Oxford's School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. He has also previously been a Postdoctoral Research Officer in Oxford's Faculty of Law. He holds particular expertise in Kenya's radical devolution of government functions under the 2010 constitution. He has written on how the legal changes are being navigated locally, as well as on the broader theory of subsidiarity and decentralisation.
Selected Works: Burbidge, D., & Cheeseman, N. (2017). Trust, ethnicity and integrity in East Africa: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Tanzania. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 2(1), 88-123.
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