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Ethiopia's 'developmental state' : political order and distributive crisis
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Title
Ethiopia's 'developmental state' : political order and distributive crisis / Tom Lavers, University of Manchester.
ISBN
9781009428316 (ebook)
9781009428293 (hardback)
9781009428309 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2023).
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Unrestricted online access.
Summary
Ethiopia stands out as a leading example of state-led development in Africa. Tom Lavers offers in this book a comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of Ethiopia's development project, examining how regimes maintain power during the extended periods required to bring about economic transformation. Specifically, Lavers explores how the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, 1991-2019) sought to maintain political order through economic transformation, and why the party collapsed, leading to the outbreak of civil war in 2020. The book argues that the EPRDF sought to secure mass acquiescence through distribution of land and employment. However, rapid population growth and the limits of industrial policy in the contemporary global economy led to a distributive crisis that was a central factor in the regime's collapse. This Ethiopian experience raises important questions about the prospects for economic transformation elsewhere on the continent. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/9781009428316.
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Cambridge OA.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 11, 2023
Series
African studies series ; 168
Contents
Ethiopia and the challenge of late-late development
Structural transformation, late-late development and political order
Ethiopian state formation and the revolutionary origins of EPRDF dominance
Distributive threats, elite cohesion and the emergence of the "developmental state"
Land tenure and changing responses to the Agrarian question
Industrial policy and the challenge of mass employment creation
Urban development and the politics of expropriation
Distributive crises and access to social protection
Enmeshment and the limits of state infrastructural power
Distributive crisis, elite fragmentation and the collapse of the EPRDF
Late-late development and political order.
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