Ethiopia's 'Developmental State'

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.

'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

• 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.