Ethiopia's 'Developmental State'

Political Order and Distributive Crisis

AvTom Lavers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-05
Mått:158 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:690 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African Studies
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009428293

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Tom Lavers is a Reader in Politics and Development at the University of Manchester. He has been researching and writing on Ethiopian politics since 2005, and has published in leading journals including African Affairs, World Development and the Journal of Agrarian Change, and two edited volumes.

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'This is a rich, fascinating, and important book, essential for understanding contemporary Ethiopia's state formation and development challenges within the wider context of both domestic and global transformations.' Davide Chinigo, The Journal of Development Studies

Innehållsförteckning

1. Ethiopia and the challenge of late-late development; 2. Structural transformation, late-late development and political order; 3. Ethiopian state formation and the revolutionary origins of EPRDF dominance; 4. Distributive threats, elite cohesion and the emergence of the 'developmental state'; 5. Land tenure and changing responses to the agrarian question; 6. Industrial policy and the challenge of mass employment creation; 7. Urban development and the politics of expropriation; 8. Distributive crises and access to social protection; 9. Enmeshment and the limits of state infrastructural power; 10. Distributive crisis, elite fragmentation and the collapse of the EPRDF; 11. Late-late development and political order.