Incorporating ‘‘Democratic Developmental State Ideology’’ into Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism – A Contradiction?

Daba, Bizuayehu; Mulu, Fesseha

doi:10.22521/unibulletin.2017.61.9

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“…The year 1991 has brought shifts and departure in social, economic and political aspects of Ethiopia after the military regime was toppled by EPRDF. After holding the throne the first assignment of EPRDF government was designing new policies and strategies which help the regime to lead the country from poverty to sustainable development due to the regimes deep disappointment in a paradigm of predatory state which was the root cause of rent seeking and underdevelopment in Africa [20,6].…”

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Development and Democracy, Complementary or Contradictory: A Critical Reflection on Ethiopian Democratic Developmental State

Adula¹,

Nigussie²

2021

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Achieving economic growth and sustainable development remain the prior policy all nation states across the world.To achieve their sustainable development and economic growth goals, international communities has been fermenting and diagnosing various development models and paradigms. However, there is no one size and fit all development paradigms which obliged to be followed by nation states around the globe. This paper examines developmental state growth model and its nexus with democratization with reference to Ethiopian democratic developmental state growth model. The paper employed qualitative research approach as a research methodology. This paper is based on desk review. This paper argued that, even though EPRDF government claim the country as democratic developmental state which is unique to Asian authoritarian developmental state, the country portrayed as one of poor human right records and leading journalist jailer in the Africa despite the country has been witnessing the fastest economic growth for the last ten consecutive years. This paper also argued that Ethiopian developmental state and democratization process is contradictory since Ethiopian governments have been garnering the political legitimacy through development achievement not directly from public elections and the government has been using the economic achievement as an excuse for its democratic back sliding and democratic deconsolidation in Ethiopia.

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Section: Ethiopian Developmental State Model: Origin and Distinctive ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and Democracy, Complementary or Contradictory: A Critical Reflection on Ethiopian Democratic Developmental State

Adula¹,

Nigussie²

2021

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‘‘Governance of green infrastructure planning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’’

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Ethiopia: A Democratic Developmental State?

Gebremariam

Bayu

2017

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The ruling Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in its notable second reform appraisal held in the aftermath of the 2005 national election concluded that the utmost priority of the government should be realizing fastest and sustainable economic growth that fairly benefits its citizens' unless the very existence of the country wouldn't be guaranteed. Given the history of poverty reduction in developing countries, particularly in Africa, EPRDF realized that it is unthinkable to eradicate poverty from Ethiopia adopting neo-liberalism. Above all, the miraculous economic transformation of the South East Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong has proved that there is another way to development, not just neo-liberalism. Accordingly, EPRDF, after examining South Korea's and Taiwan's history of economic development in particular where both countries have had a large section of rural population unlike Hong Kong and Singapore where both are urban, found 'developmental state' relevant to Ethiopia. However, unlike these countries which were originally under non-democratic regimes where their leaders fear the rural peasant and external aggression from their communist rivals, EPRDF has had a great support of rural and urban population with no imminent foreign threat(s), and decided to execute the ideology rather

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Incorporating ‘‘Democratic Developmental State Ideology’’ into Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism – A Contradiction?

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Development and Democracy, Complementary or Contradictory: A Critical Reflection on Ethiopian Democratic Developmental State

Development and Democracy, Complementary or Contradictory: A Critical Reflection on Ethiopian Democratic Developmental State

‘‘Governance of green infrastructure planning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’’

Ethiopia: A Democratic Developmental State?

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