Matrimony of Discordant: Developmental State and Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia, 2001–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-81
Author(s):  
Birhanu Bitew
Keyword(s):  
Economic Models ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

Abstract Since the coming of Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (eprdf) into power, Ethiopia has oscillated with the trial of different economic models. In 2001, the regime adopted developmental state model along with ethnic federalism while abandoning liberalism. Taking these facts into account, this paper assesses the tension and compatibility between developmental state and ethnic federalism. The findings of this paper reveal that there are no problems associated with the developmental state in terms of rhetorical points of view. It can improve development if the governments strictly observe and implement the pillars that the developmental state needs to have. However, the marriage between developmental state and ethnic federalism incurs the possibility of the non-enforcement of the main pillars of the developmental state. The nature of the developmental state and the way Ethiopia’s federal system structured is incompatible, which I call such a relation the ‘matrimony of discordant’.

scholarly journals Developmental State and Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia:

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-127
Author(s):  
Zekarias Beshah Abebe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Model ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
State Models ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
The Right

The ethnic federalization of the post-1991 Ethiopia and the subsequent adoption of developmental state paradigm are the two most important pillars for the country’s political and economic restructuring. An interventionist developmental state model is opted for against the dominant narrative of the non-interventionist neo-liberal approach as the right path to conquer poverty: a source of national humiliation. On the other hand, ethnically federated Ethiopia is considered as an antidote to the historical pervasive mismanagement of the ethno-linguistic and cultural diversity of the polity. The presence of these seemingly paradoxical state models in Ethiopia makes it a captivating case study for analysis. Ethiopia’s experiment of pursuing a developmental state in a decentralized form of governance not only deviates from the prevalent pattern but also is perceived to be inherently incompatible due to the competing approaches that characterize the two systems. This article argues that the way in which the developmental state is being practiced in Ethiopia is eroding the values and the very purposes of ethnic federalism. Its centralized, elitist and authoritarian nature, which are the hallmark of the Ethiopian developmental state, defeats the positive strides that ethnic federalism aspires to achieve, thereby causing discontent and disenfranchisement among a swathe of the society. The article posits that the developmental state can and should be reinvented in a manner that goes in harmony with the ideals of ethnic federalism. The notion of process-based leadership remains one way of reinventing the Ethiopian developmental state model.  

The Developmental Trading State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
East Asia ◽  
National Economy ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Principal Function ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
The Way

This chapter demonstrates that the downwards pressure that state consolidation placed on mass violence was amplified by the type of state that emerged. Across East Asia, governments came to define themselves as “developmental” or “trading” states whose principal purpose was to grow the national economy and thereby improve the economic wellbeing of their citizens. Governments with different ideologies came to embrace economic growth and growing the prosperity of their populations as the principal function of the state and its core source of legitimacy. Despite some significant glitches along the way the adoption of the developmental trading state model has proven successful. Not only have East Asian governments succeeded in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, the practices and policy orientations dictated by this model helped shift governments and societies away from belligerent practices towards postures that prioritized peace and stability. This reinforced the trend towards greater peacefulness.

3. Neoliberalism in the Asia-Pacific region

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-78
Author(s):  
Manfred B. Steger ◽  
Ravi K. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Developmental State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
China And India ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Political Economic

‘Neoliberalism in the Asia-Pacific region’ traces the evolution of neoliberalism in the Asia-Pacific Region, looking at the economic developments of Japan, China, and India. It should be noted that in Asian countries, the market-oriented ideas of liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had to contend with an opposing dynamic of state interventionism and economic centralism. Ultimately, neoliberalism in the Asia-Pacific Region evolved within highly differentiated political-economic systems that were rooted in a regional developmental state model. Different nations have found unique ways of entering an increasingly globalized marketplace. Once these Asian governments adapted neoliberalism to meet their specific needs, they scarcely hesitated to incorporate suitable portions of an economic nationalist programme.

An Experiment in Grading Problems in Algebra

1914 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Eugene R. Smith ◽  
Harry D. Gaylord ◽  
Maurice J. Babb ◽  
William E. Breckenridge ◽  
Edward L. Thorndike
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Two hundred teachers of mathematics, chiefly members of the New York Section of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States and Maryland, ranked the twentyfive problems printed below for difficulty, “difficulty” being defined as in the instructions appended. The variations in the individual opinions were very great, being as shown in Table I. It is an interesting exercise to examine this table, and imagine, as well as one can, the points of view from which these varying estimates were each plausible-to divine, for example, why Problem Twas rated all the way from easiest to hardest of the twentyfive. How much of the variation was due to tenable points of view and how much was due to errors of judgment cannot, of course, be told until the problem in question has been tested with respect to the percentage of pupils able to solve it in the time allowed.

Uganda's 'developmental' state model faces risks

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
State Model ◽  
National Service ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Annual Budget ◽  
Ministry Of Finance

Subject Economic development planning in Uganda. Significance The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MFPED) has presented its annual budget framework paper to parliament, the main precursor to the 2015/16 budget. The document prioritises infrastructure-led growth through investments in transport and energy, continuing the government's shift away from the donor-led focus on poverty reduction to a state-led economic model that taps new sources of financing, particularly from China. Impacts Museveni's pledge to re-introduce national service reflects credible threats from al-Shabaab. However, the broader trend towards securitisation also remains integral to regime maintenance aims. Political fractures in Museveni's powerbase will see the president continue to use security methods to enforce his rule.

PATH-BASED SYSTEMS TO GUIDE SCIENTISTS IN THE MAZE OF BIOLOGICAL DATA SOURCES

2006 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 1069-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH COHEN-BOULAKIA ◽  
SUSAN DAVIDSON ◽  
CHRISTINE FROIDEVAUX ◽  
ZOÉ LACROIX ◽  
MARIA-ESTHER VIDAL
Keyword(s):  
Biological Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Single Experiment ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
Wet Lab ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Growing Network ◽  
The Way

Fueled by novel technologies capable of producing massive amounts of data for a single experiment, scientists are faced with an explosion of information which must be rapidly analyzed and combined with other data to form hypotheses and create knowledge. Today, numerous biological questions can be answered without entering a wet lab. Scientific protocols designed to answer these questions can be run entirely on a computer. Biological resources are often complementary, focused on different objects and reflecting various experts' points of view. Exploiting the richness and diversity of these resources is crucial for scientists. However, with the increase of resources, scientists have to face the problem of selecting sources and tools when interpreting their data. In this paper, we analyze the way in which biologists express and implement scientific protocols, and we identify the requirements for a system which can guide scientists in constructing protocols to answer new biological questions. We present two such systems, BioNavigation and BioGuide dedicated to help scientists select resources by following suitable paths within the growing network of interconnected biological resources.

The Literary Unity of Luke-Acts: Questions of Style – a Task for Literary Critics

1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dawsey
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
Narrative Unity ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Literary Unity ◽  
Critical Methods ◽  
Or History ◽  
The Way

Joseph Tyson's The Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts and Robert Tannehill's The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts, published in 1986, are good examples of the interpretive wealth being mined by scholars who are adopting literary-critical methods for approaching the Lukan writings. What most distinguishes these critics' approaches from older, more familiar ones is the claim that the Bible's historical narratives are imaginative re-enactments of history – thus, in form, more akin to fiction than to theology, biography, or history. Robert Alter called the Biblical stories ‘historicized fiction’, meaning in our case that the author of Luke and Acts employed the artifices of fiction-writing, among others, supplying feeling and motives and creating speeches and dialogue for his characters. Professors Tyson and Tannehill, and other literary scholars like them, are helping us better discern how these techniques were used in Luke and Acts, thus opening new windows to the characters, the way that the author ascribes intentions to them, the plot, themes, nuances, points of view, uses of irony, and word-plays and associations in the writings.

Speculations about the Potestas Litterarum in medieval grammar (11th through 13th centuries)

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estrella Pérez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

Summary The aim of this paper is to study the concept of potestas, one of the three ‘accidents’ of ‘letters’ in the Roman tradition. More specifically, it intends to examine the way in which the speculative grammarians from the 11th to the 13th centuries dealt with speech sounds and which issues were attached to it. The commentators of the beginning of this period mapped out the route to be followed in the attempt at a thorough explanation and systematization of Prisician’s adumbrations. To that purpose, they forged the successful term modus pronunciandi and classified the potestas into five types. This chapter was granted as much discussion as any other: some concepts and terminology of the Aristotelian universe were employed in it (e.g., the opposition substantial/accidental, potentiality/act). Nevertheless, some remarkable differences between the points of view of the 12th-century grammarians and those of the 13th-century have been observed, among them the interest on the part of the latter in the generation of sound. In this century, two works, the anonymous Tractatus de grammatica and John Dacus’s modistic Summa, held for different reasons a very particular position in the evolution of the doctrine on the potestas. In this respect, the influence of the former on the latter has been noticed. With their speculations all these medieval grammarians succeded in differentiating two levels within the realm of speech sounds.

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