The politics of ethnicity in Ethiopia :: actors, power and mobilisation under ethnic federalism /

Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis for political representation. The one prominent exception is Ethiopia, which since 1991 has imposed a system of ethnic-based federalism that offers...

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Weitere Verfasser: Aalen, Lovise
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:African social studies series ; v. 25.
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Zusammenfassung:Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis for political representation. The one prominent exception is Ethiopia, which since 1991 has imposed a system of ethnic-based federalism that offers each ethnic group the right of self-determination. This book provides a detailed empirical study of this system at work in the complex multiethnic environment of southern Ethiopia. It finds that ethnic self-rule, in combination with the power politics of an authoritarian regime, has produced both i.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004209374
9004209379
1283161982
9781283161985

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