Ethiopia Since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and PerformanceSiegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll, Lovise Aalen The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) took over from the much hated army dictatorship of Mengistu's DERG at the begiining of the 1990s. This book is the outcome of an intensive research and monitoring study of the growing gap between democratic aspirations and reality. It focuses on the elections held in 2000 and 2001 but also presents the wider context and issues including gender, urban and rural contrasts, class and caste conflict, and environment. |
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Democratisation in Ethiopia | 1 |
A Process of Democratisation or Control? | 26 |
Women Are Not Corrupt | 46 |
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