Lovise Aalen
Biographic Data
| ID | 210804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lovise Aalen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lovise |
| FAMILY NAME | Aalen |
| SIGNATURE | AALEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4959-3658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Political togetherness
Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Ethnicity is a dynamic construct, with individual-level ethnic switching having been reported in numerous contexts. Ethnic switching, typically attributed to instrumental or social identity motivations, is hypothesized to be influenced by employment, as it facilitates a shift away from land-based, ethnic dependencies. However, confirming this theory is challenging due to inherent selection biases in employment. Collaborating with 27 firms across …
Jobs and Political Participation
Development and Social Inequality
Over the period from 2004 to 2018, Ethiopia was among the fastest growing nonoil-producing economies in Africa, and had one of the highest growth rates globally: nearly 10 percent per year.1 The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from 1991 to 2018, made ambitious plans for transforming the Ethiopian economy through the help of foreign direct investment (FDI), aiming at making Ethiopia a midd…
Ethiopia
Political parties are particularly important for the operation of federal systems. The way parties are organised might reinforce or corrode the federal division of power. Ethiopian federalism is a case in point: although the Constitution gives wide rights of autonomy for regional states, centralised party rule has undermined the regional states’ ability to determine their own affairs. In this paper, the Sidama’s quest for regional statehood is di…
The Revolutionary Democracy of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), victor in the civil war in 1991, has since transformed into an authoritarian party. While this transition is well covered in the literature, few studies have explored how the party’s ideology has adapted after its position was consolidated. This article addresses this gap, by analysing the EPRDF’s ideology of revolutionary democracy, and how the interpretation of it has changed over t…
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In this article, we discuss whether these conclusions hold for non-Western, nondemocratic, and developing settings too. Through a study of Ethiopian women’s employment and political agency, we find that employment is actuall…
Power calculations and political decentralisation in African post-conflict states
Although many African governments introduced provisions for subnational elections in the early 1990s, there is variation in the extent to which these reforms were implemented and sustained. Our inductive analysis of three post-conflict cases – Angola, Ethiopia and South Africa – suggests that one factor explaining this variation is elite discontinuity when an insurgent group wins power in the aftermath of conflict. Systems of subnational election…
E thiopia
Due to an early state‐building and a noncolonized past, the political mobilization of ethnicity in Ethiopia differs from the general pattern in colonized and decolonized Africa. The Amhara culture, which includes the Orthodox Christian faith and the Amharic language, has constituted the core identity of the Ethiopian state. The incorporation of non‐Amhara into the state at the end of the nineteenth century created a legacy of forceful assimilatio…
Ethiopia After Meles
[A]lthough the institutionalization of the ruling party organization after Meles's death ensured the immediate survival of the Ethiopian regime, we should not confuse short-term stability and growth with long-term sustainability
Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has been explained as retribution for Sudanese aid to Eritrean rebels fighting against the regimes of Emperor Haile Salassie and the Derg. This is one aspect of the Ethiopian rationale for this proxy war, but other factors were also relevant. Based on primary sources from the Ethiopian Ministry of De…
Making Unity Unattractive
As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: Cornell University Press 2005)), a crucial dilemma in post-war power-sharing arrangements is that the very same institutions that provide an attractive basis for ending a conflict are likely to hinder the consolidation of peace and democracy in the long term. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) w…
In memoriam Siegfried Pausewang (1937-2012)
Obituary
The End of Democracy? Curtailing Political and Civil Rights in Ethiopia
This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional watershed elections. Although an unprecedented liberalisation took place ahead of the contested and controversial 2005 polls, a crack-down occurred in the wake of the elections, when the opposition was neutralised. Subsequently, the government rolled out a deliberate plan to prevent any future large-scale protest against their grip on power by establishin…
The 2008 Ethiopian local elections
Ethiopia carried out local elections for neighbourhood (kebele) and county (woreda) assemblies on 13 and 20 April 2008, respectively.1 By law, these elections were supposed to be conducted in 2005, but the chaotic period after the general elections that year made it impossible to carry out the local polls. Considering the formative character of the 2005 general elections, where the opposition for the first time challenged the ruling Ethiopian Peo…
Ethiopia since the Derg
Preface - Christopher Clapham 1. Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some Notes on Theory and Methodology - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 2. A Process of Democratisation or Control? The Historical and Political Context - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 3. Women are not corrupt: The Elections in Addis Ababa in a Gender Perspective - Marta Camilla Wright 4. Prospects for Democracy, Agro-ecology and Civil Socie…
The End of Democracy? Curtailing Political and Civil Rights in Ethiopia
This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional watershed elections. Although an unprecedented liberalisation took place ahead of the contested and controversial 2005 polls, a crack-down occurred in the wake of the elections, when the opposition was neutralised. Subsequently, the government rolled out a deliberate plan to prevent any future large-scale protest against their grip on power by establishin…
The 2008 Ethiopian local elections
Ethiopia carried out local elections for neighbourhood (kebele) and county (woreda) assemblies on 13 and 20 April 2008, respectively.1 By law, these elections were supposed to be conducted in 2005, but the chaotic period after the general elections that year made it impossible to carry out the local polls. Considering the formative character of the 2005 general elections, where the opposition for the first time challenged the ruling Ethiopian Peo…
The Revolutionary Democracy of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), victor in the civil war in 1991, has since transformed into an authoritarian party. While this transition is well covered in the literature, few studies have explored how the party’s ideology has adapted after its position was consolidated. This article addresses this gap, by analysing the EPRDF’s ideology of revolutionary democracy, and how the interpretation of it has changed over t…
Power calculations and political decentralisation in African post-conflict states
Although many African governments introduced provisions for subnational elections in the early 1990s, there is variation in the extent to which these reforms were implemented and sustained. Our inductive analysis of three post-conflict cases – Angola, Ethiopia and South Africa – suggests that one factor explaining this variation is elite discontinuity when an insurgent group wins power in the aftermath of conflict. Systems of subnational election…
Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has been explained as retribution for Sudanese aid to Eritrean rebels fighting against the regimes of Emperor Haile Salassie and the Derg. This is one aspect of the Ethiopian rationale for this proxy war, but other factors were also relevant. Based on primary sources from the Ethiopian Ministry of De…
Making Unity Unattractive
As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: Cornell University Press 2005)), a crucial dilemma in post-war power-sharing arrangements is that the very same institutions that provide an attractive basis for ending a conflict are likely to hinder the consolidation of peace and democracy in the long term. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) w…
Jobs and Political Participation
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In this article, we discuss whether these conclusions hold for non-Western, nondemocratic, and developing settings too. Through a study of Ethiopian women’s employment and political agency, we find that employment is actuall…
Ethiopia since the Derg
Preface - Christopher Clapham 1. Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some Notes on Theory and Methodology - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 2. A Process of Democratisation or Control? The Historical and Political Context - Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll and Lovise Aalen 3. Women are not corrupt: The Elections in Addis Ababa in a Gender Perspective - Marta Camilla Wright 4. Prospects for Democracy, Agro-ecology and Civil Socie…
The 2008 Ethiopian local elections
Ethiopia carried out local elections for neighbourhood (kebele) and county (woreda) assemblies on 13 and 20 April 2008, respectively.1 By law, these elections were supposed to be conducted in 2005, but the chaotic period after the general elections that year made it impossible to carry out the local polls. Considering the formative character of the 2005 general elections, where the opposition for the first time challenged the ruling Ethiopian Peo…
The End of Democracy? Curtailing Political and Civil Rights in Ethiopia
This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional watershed elections. Although an unprecedented liberalisation took place ahead of the contested and controversial 2005 polls, a crack-down occurred in the wake of the elections, when the opposition was neutralised. Subsequently, the government rolled out a deliberate plan to prevent any future large-scale protest against their grip on power by establishin…
Making Unity Unattractive
As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: Cornell University Press 2005)), a crucial dilemma in post-war power-sharing arrangements is that the very same institutions that provide an attractive basis for ending a conflict are likely to hinder the consolidation of peace and democracy in the long term. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) w…
In memoriam Siegfried Pausewang (1937-2012)
Obituary
Ethiopia After Meles
[A]lthough the institutionalization of the ruling party organization after Meles's death ensured the immediate survival of the Ethiopian regime, we should not confuse short-term stability and growth with long-term sustainability
Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has been explained as retribution for Sudanese aid to Eritrean rebels fighting against the regimes of Emperor Haile Salassie and the Derg. This is one aspect of the Ethiopian rationale for this proxy war, but other factors were also relevant. Based on primary sources from the Ethiopian Ministry of De…
E thiopia
Due to an early state‐building and a noncolonized past, the political mobilization of ethnicity in Ethiopia differs from the general pattern in colonized and decolonized Africa. The Amhara culture, which includes the Orthodox Christian faith and the Amharic language, has constituted the core identity of the Ethiopian state. The incorporation of non‐Amhara into the state at the end of the nineteenth century created a legacy of forceful assimilatio…
Power calculations and political decentralisation in African post-conflict states
Although many African governments introduced provisions for subnational elections in the early 1990s, there is variation in the extent to which these reforms were implemented and sustained. Our inductive analysis of three post-conflict cases – Angola, Ethiopia and South Africa – suggests that one factor explaining this variation is elite discontinuity when an insurgent group wins power in the aftermath of conflict. Systems of subnational election…
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In this article, we discuss whether these conclusions hold for non-Western, nondemocratic, and developing settings too. Through a study of Ethiopian women’s employment and political agency, we find that employment is actuall…
The Revolutionary Democracy of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), victor in the civil war in 1991, has since transformed into an authoritarian party. While this transition is well covered in the literature, few studies have explored how the party’s ideology has adapted after its position was consolidated. This article addresses this gap, by analysing the EPRDF’s ideology of revolutionary democracy, and how the interpretation of it has changed over t…
Ethiopia
Political parties are particularly important for the operation of federal systems. The way parties are organised might reinforce or corrode the federal division of power. Ethiopian federalism is a case in point: although the Constitution gives wide rights of autonomy for regional states, centralised party rule has undermined the regional states’ ability to determine their own affairs. In this paper, the Sidama’s quest for regional statehood is di…
Development and Social Inequality
Over the period from 2004 to 2018, Ethiopia was among the fastest growing nonoil-producing economies in Africa, and had one of the highest growth rates globally: nearly 10 percent per year.1 The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from 1991 to 2018, made ambitious plans for transforming the Ethiopian economy through the help of foreign direct investment (FDI), aiming at making Ethiopia a midd…
Jobs and Political Participation
Political togetherness
Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Ethnicity is a dynamic construct, with individual-level ethnic switching having been reported in numerous contexts. Ethnic switching, typically attributed to instrumental or social identity motivations, is hypothesized to be influenced by employment, as it facilitates a shift away from land-based, ethnic dependencies. However, confirming this theory is challenging due to inherent selection biases in employment. Collaborating with 27 firms across …
Politics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · African history and culture analysis (8 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works)