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This essay is an historical, global, and intellectually oriented analytical commentary on 2013 general and quinquennial presidential election in Kenya and the factors that contributed to its outcome. The analysis and its interpretive conclusion have been informed via the reading of professor Sagini's two books. During the week of March 4th 2013, eight candidates competed for the presidency of the Republic of Kenya. Uhuru Kenyatta is the leader of the jubilee coalition and Raila Odinga is the leader of ODM/CORD coalition party. While Kenyatta received 50.07% of the electorate vote, Odinga got 43.28%. Of the 12.3 million votes cast, 14.3 million were eligible to vote; that is 86% voter turnout which was very high indeed. The other six candidates were evidently unelectable. In addition, 290 members of parliament, 100 senators, 47 county representatives for women, 47 governors and local councellors were elected. This federal devolution of structural power was popularly agreed on in 2010 when the First Federal Constitution of the Second Republic was bargained and ratified. Devolution is the downward constitutional or cultural handing and passing of power from a higher authority i.e., (from central to provincial/county) governments. This transfer of power is a devolutionary activity whose processes culminate in the sharing of responsibility for governance. In Kenya, since the responsibility to govern devolved upon the counties, the latter have legally and morally acquired power for exercising their sovereignty hence federalism. The constitution divided and limited power within the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. It instituted the principles of separation of powers, independence of the judiciary, and an adversarial relationship between the president and parliament for the purpose of preventing tyranny. The constitution also delegated power to the national (federal government) and reserved power for states in order to ensure that if one system abuses the people, the other will protect them and their rights as well. This model of popular and administrative governance is not only American in sentiment, but at best, it is the profound Kenyanization of Montesquieuism. Montesquieu's thinking was influenced by his Esprit des lois (1748) i.e., The Spirit of Laws. The Spirit of Laws is a treatise on political theory that was first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1748 with the help of Claudine Guerin de Tencin. Originally, it was

Globalization: The Paradox of Political Governance in Kenya: Domestic, Global, and Historical Forces