The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia Actors, Power and Mobilisation Under Ethnic Federalism
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.06.2011
Verlag
BrillSeitenzahl
216
Maße (L/B/H)
23.9/16/1.3 cm
Gewicht
386 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-90-04-20729-5
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 intended and unintended outcomes. While arguably easing large-scale ethnic conflicts, it has led to 'ethnicisation' of local socioeconomic disputes and to sharper inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic divides, often to the disadvantage of historically marginalised groups.
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