Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis

Tom Lavers

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Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’

Political Order and Distributive Crisis

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Tom Lavers, University of Manchester

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009428316
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009428316
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
Series:: African Studies (168)

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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.

‘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 Source: The Journal of Development Studies

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