1st Edition

The Politics of Contemporary Ethiopia Ethnic Federalism and Authoritarian Survival

By Yohannes Gedamu Copyright 2021
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates the role of ethnic federalism in Ethiopian politics, reflecting on a long history of division amongst the country’s political elites. The book argues that these patterns have enabled the resilience and survival of authoritarianism in the country, and have led to the failure of democratization. Ethnic conflict in Ethiopia stretches back to the country’s imperial history.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part One: The Foundations to Understanding the Politics of Ethiopia

Chapter 2: Historical Overview of Political Regimes in Pre-1974 Ethiopia

Chapter 3: The Rise and Fall of the Military Regime and the Emergence of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front-Led-Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front

Chapter 4: A Review of the Contemporary Literature on Authoritarian Survival and Ethnic Federalism

Chapter 5: The Strategic Elite and Institutional Designs in Ethiopia: Question of Rights

Part Two: Ethnic Federalism, an Authoritarian Coalition, and Political Change in Ethiopia

Chapter 6: Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism: Institutional Frameworks as Mechanisms for Authoritarian Survival

Chapter 7: Ethnic Federalism and the EPRDF’s Systemic Co-Optation Mechanisms for Survival

Chapter 8: Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethnic Federalism, and the Anatomy of a Party-State’s Economy

Chapter 9: Critical Junctures in the Rise and Decline of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front

Chapter 10: A Defunct Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, the Emergence of the Prosperity Party, and the Fall of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Biography

Yohannes Gedamu is a Lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia.