The Impact of Federal-States Intergovernmental Relations on Regional States Autonomy in Ethopia
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Federal-states intergovernmental relations have direct impact on the operation of
the federal system and very important in understanding the operational part of a
federal system since it has the tendency to alter or entirely change the
constitutional division of power. This is so, because intergovernmental relations are
inherent in federations which give life to the federal system through practice after the
constitution divide powers between orders of government. Some federations deal it in their
constitution while others develop through legislation. Some relies on institution that
manages these relations. In Ethiopia, the constitution is not adequate in providing some hint
how to manage. Nor it provided institution that does this. The federal government
established organization of regional affairs in 1994 that later devolved to ministry of federal
affairs in 2001. As the assessment of this institution is made by this thesis, it is limited to
some extent, if not invisible in coordinating the relations between federal government
institution and states institution. This thesis is aimed to analysis the impact that federalstates
intergovernmental relations operate in the absence of adequate constitution and
practical institution, in the dominant ruling party and infant-stage federal system has on the
autonomy of states. To come to this objective, it firstly provided conceptual framework from
existing literatures and then captured federations' experiences. It also used interview
conducted on four groups; namely, government official at state, government official at
federal, academician group who are familiar to the study and political party both ruling and
opposition party. Using all these mechanisms, the result shows that in Ethiopia, federalstates
intergovernmental relations influences the constitutionally given state autonomy and
the federal government and its executive institutions dominates the process of Ethiopian
federal-state intergovernmental relations.
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