Powers - Mengist - and peasants in rural Ethiopia: The post-2005 interlude

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 435-460

  Lefort, René ^a  

^a NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; CULTURAL IDENTITY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL REFORM; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL SOCIETY;

AMHARA; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77957292568     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X10000297     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aalen, L. & K. Tronvoll. 2009a. 'The end of democracy? Curtailing political & civil rights in Ethiopia', Review of African Political Economy 36, 120: 193-207.
2. Aalen, L. & K. Tronvoll. 2009b. 'The 2008 Ethiopian local elections: The return of electoral authoritarianism', African Affairs 108, 430: 111-120
3. Abbink, J. 2006. 'Discomfiture of democracy? The 2005 election crisis in Ethiopia and its aftermath', African Affairs 105, 419: 173-199 (Pubitemid 44295622)
4. Abbink, J. 2009. 'The Ethiopian Second Republic and the fragile " social contract" ', Africa Spectrum 44, 2: 3-28.
5. Aregawi, Berhe. 2009. A Political History of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991). Los Angeles, CA: Tsehai Publishers.
6. Arriola, L. R. 2003 (2008). ' Ethnicity, economic conditions, and opposition support: Evidence from Ethiopia's 2005 elections', Northeast African Studies (New Series) 10, 1 : 115-144
7. Aspen, H. 1995. 'The 1995 national and regional elections in Ethiopia: Local perspectives ', Working Paper on Ethiopian Development 10, University of Trondheim: Centre for Environment and Development.
8. Aspen, H. 2002. 'Models of democracy: Perceptions of power, government and peasantry in Ethiopia', in Bahru Zewde & S. Pausewang, eds. Ethiopia : The challenge of democracy from below. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 61-102.
9. Carter Center. 2010. Ethiopia National Elections, The Carter Center Observation Mission 2005, Final Report. Atlanta: Carter Center.
10. Census. 2007. Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and Housing Census, available at : http:// www.csa.gov.et/pdf/Cen2007-firstdraft. pdf.
11. Clapham, C. 2009. 'Post-war Ethiopia: The trajectories of crisis ', Review of African Political Economy 36, 120: 181-192
12. Colan, D. & J. W. Mellor. 2007. The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) : Example of an impact-focused approach. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, available at : Www.ifpri. org/impact/impactpubs. asp.
13. Dercon, S., R. Vargas Hill & A. Zeitlin. 2009. In Search of a Strategy : Rethinking agriculture-led growth in Ethiopia. Oxford: Centre for the Study of African Economies.
14. Dessalegn Rahmato. 2009. The Peasant and the State : Studies in agrarian change in Ethiopia 1950s-2000s. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press.
15. Ege, S. 1997. 'The promised land: The Amhara land redistribution of 1997', Working Paper on Ethiopian Development 12, Dragvoll, Norway: Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
16. Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). 1995. Action Plan. Addis Ababa.
17. EPRDF. 2002. 'The EPRDF's rural development vision: An overview', in Renewal (Tehadso) 3 (special issue), April 2002.
18. European Union (EU). 2006. Final Report, 14.3.2006. European Union Election Observation Mission Ethiopia, available at : http://ec.europa.eu/comm/ external-relations/human-rights/eu-election-ass-observ/ethiopia/ 2005-final-report.pdf
19. Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2010. ' "One hundred ways of putting pressure" : Violations of freedom of expression and association in Ethiopia', available at : http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/ 03/24/one-hundred-ways-putting-pressure
20. Lefort, R. 2005. 'A short survey of the relationship between powers - mengist - and peasants - gebäre - in a peasant community of Northern Shoa', Nord-Süd Aktuell 2: 211-221
21. Lefort, R. 2007. 'Powers - mengist - and peasants in rural Ethiopia: The May 2005 elections ', Journal of Modern African Studies 45, 2: 253-273 (Pubitemid 46795971)
22. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. 2006. Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) (2005/06-2009/10), September 2006. Addis Ababa: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.
23. Poluha, E. 2002. 'Learning political behaviour: Peasant-state relations in Ethiopia', in E. Poluha & M. Rosendahl, eds. Contesting 'Good' Governance. London: Routledge, 101-136
24. Shaefer, C. 2007. 'Calculated costs : Electoral victory and human rights infractions following the May 2005 elections in Wallega', paper presented at the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES), Trondheim, Norway.
25. Tronvoll, K. 2009. 'Ambiguous elections : The influence of non-electoral politics in Ethiopian democratisation', The Journal of Modern African Studies 47, 3: 449-474
26. Vaughan, S. & Tronvoll, K. 2003. The Culture of Power in Contemporary Ethiopian Political Life. Stockholm: SIDA Studies 10.