Contested power in Ethiopia
Subtitle: traditional authorities and multi-party elections
By: edited by Kjetil Tronvoll, Tobias Hagmann
Series: African social studies series -- v. 27; African social studies series -- v. 27.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004218437
Subjects: Politics and government; Political parties; Elections; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: traditional authorities and multi-party elections in Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll & Tobias Hagmann; title: Electoral politics in the Nuer cultural context / Dereje Feyissa; title: Fishing for votes in the Somali region: clan elders, bureaucrats and party politics in the 2005 elections / Tobias Hagmann; title: The family connection: inherited status and parliamentary elections in Dawro, southern Ethiopia / Data Dea Barata; title: A revival of tradition? the power of clans and social strata in the Wolayta elections / Lovise Aalen; title: Cynicism and hope: urban youth and relations of power during the 2005 Ethiopian elections / Daniel Mains; title: Islam and politics: the EPRDF, the 2005 elections and Muslim institutions in Bale / Terje Ostebo; title: We say they are Neftenya; they say we are OLF': a post-election assessment of ethnicity, politics and age-sets in Oromiya / Charles Schaefer; title: Customary institutions in contemporary politics in Borana zone, Oromia, Ethiopia / Marco Bassi; title: The 2005 elections in Maale: a reassertion of traditional authority or the extension of a nascent public sphere? / Donald L. Donham; title: Epilogue: the 'new' Ethiopia: changing discourses of democracy / Kjetil Tronvoll.