Thugs, spies and vigilantes: community policing and street politics in inner city Addis Ababa

M Di Nunzio - Africa, 2014 - cambridge.org
The implementation of community policing schemes and development programmes
targeting street youth in inner city Addis Ababa, intended to prevent crime and unrest, has …

The revolutionary democracy of Ethiopia: A wartime ideology both shaping and shaped by peacetime policy needs

L Aalen - Government and Opposition, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), victor in the civil war in
1991, has since transformed into an authoritarian party. While this transition is well covered …

Ideology and succession politics in Ethiopia: Autocratic leadership turnover and political instability

KO Opalo, L Smith - Democratization, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Recent scholarship on the institutionalization of politics in Africa has highlighted the
consolidation of constitutional leadership turnover in electoral democracies. However …

Paradoxes of electoral authoritarianism: the 2015 Ethiopian elections as hegemonic performance

J Abbink - Journal of contemporary African studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The 2015 elections in Ethiopia had a predictable outcome, showing an entrenched system
of one-party dominance that self-referentially enacts the political order created by the …

EPRDF's Nation-Building: Tinkering with convictions and pragmatism

JN Bach - Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2014 - journals.openedition.org
The Ethio-Eritrean war (1998-2000) is often considered a turning point in the nationalist
discourse of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and the main …

Forging a nation: the Ethiopian millennium celebration and the multiethnic state

I Orlowska - Nations and Nationalism, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Due to a different calendric system, E thiopia celebrated the turn of the millennium in S
eptember 2007. This paper investigates how E thiopia's coalition government, associated by …

State-society relations in Ethiopia: A political-economy perspective of the Post-1991 order

YW Bekele, DJ Kjosavik, N Shanmugaratnam - Social Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
This article analyses state-society relations in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on the post-
1991 period. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the fundamental factors of …

Politics of exclusion and institutional transformation in Ethiopia

M Khisa - Third World Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Ethiopia experienced a critical juncture in 1991 with the defeat of the military dictatorship,
opening up the possibilities of a new political order. Since then the country underwent social …

Gimgema: civil servants' evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia

M Labzaé - Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
During its 28 years of rule, the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)
had built a strong system for controlling the Ethiopian state and civil society. This article …

Evolving state building conversations and political settlement in Ethiopia

M Tadesse, AA Kifle, D Desta - Conflict, Security & Development, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the evolving state-building conversations in Ethiopia and the role of
political settlement thereof in charting a pathway for durable peace and strong state. The …