Center - state Relations in the Ethiopian Federal Setup: Towards Coercive Federalism?
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2010-12
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Addis Ababa University
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A comprehensive understanding of the operational part of a federal system calls for the study of the
comportment on which the center-state relationship is based. Keeping this line, the Ethiopian
federal setup which is suspected of being coercive as regards the rapport between the orders of
government, is an interesting area of academic as well as political significance. The paper aims at
exploring whether such suspicion is valid or not by scrutinizing the prevailing politico-economic as
well as constitutional stratum in which the federal experiment is functioning
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federal system calls for the study of the comportment