Browsing Research Articles (Faculty of Law) by Subject "Ethiopia"
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Ethnic federalism and internal minorities: the legal protection of internal minorities in Ethiopia
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)Not a single federal arrangement has been successful in demarcating the territorial matrix of the federation into separate ethnically defined territorial units. The decade-old federal experiment in Ethiopia is no exception ... -
Local government in Ethiopia: still an apparatus of control?
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Historically, local authorities in Ethiopia enjoyed wide political, administrative, judicial, and financial autonomy. However, from the 1850s a process of territorial expansion and centralisation was initiated in the ... -
The (mis)management of ethnolinguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption ... -
The rise of corruption in Ethiopia: Is a lack of constitutionalism to blame?
(Oxford, 2020)In 2001, a political division arose within the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF)1 , arguably the core the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the ruling party and a coalition of four ethnic-based ... -
A tale of two federations: Comparing language rights in South Africa and Ethiopia
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2009)The success of a federal arrangement in accommodating ethnic diversity cannot be measured solely on the basis of its language rights regime. However, it is generally agreed that a well-designed language rights regime goes ...