Electrifying Inequality: Service Provision Injustice and the Social Contract in Kenya

• In Event: State Services and Capacities in Africa

Brief Overview

In principle, service provision helps states solidify the social contract. Yet we show that when state promises for service expansion do not match citizens’ lived reality, programs intended to strengthen the social contract can instead undermine it.

Authors

• Jennifer N Brass, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Alesha Porisky, Northern Illinois University

• Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Christopher David Gore, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Winie Mitullah, university of Nairobi