Revolutionary democratic state-building: Party, state and people in the EPRDF's Ethiopia

Journal of Eastern African Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 619-640

  Vaughan, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; ethnic federalism; institutions; mobilization; political ideology; revolutionary democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858780073     PISSN: 17531055     EISSN: 17531063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2011.642520     Document Type: Article

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