Clientelism and Ethiopia's post-1991 decentralisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4253100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paulos Chanie (Netherlands Institute for Social Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-384 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x07002662 |
| OpenAlex | W2155643181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article addresses the question of why Ethiopia's post-1991 decentralisation reform is not taking the desired direction of matching diverse needs with available resources and creating accountable, responsive and autonomous regional governments. Given regional governments' relatively diverse socio-economic positions, the intention of the reform to create autonomous regions with devolved administrative, fiscal and political power is appropriate. Nonetheless, the implementation of the elements of the reform - expenditure assignment, revenue assignment, intergovernmental fiscal transfer and sub-national borrowing - is flawed. Existing studies that question the effectiveness of Ethiopia's devolution focus on political or fiscal aspects, and fail to link the de facto centre-region political power relationship with intergovernmental fiscal relations. This article, based on detailed field research in three regional governments, argues that the flawed intergovernmental fiscal relations reform is best explained by the clientelistic relationship between central and regional political parties
Clientelism · Decentralization · Democracy · Devolution (biology) · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Revenue · Sociology · Finance · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |