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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
Publié: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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Collection: | African social studies series ;
v. 25. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : maps |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004209374 9004209379 1283161982 9781283161985 |