The Developmental State-Neoliberalism Debate: Exploring Ethiopia’s Political Economy

Kefale, Beyazen

dc.contributor.author	Kefale, Beyazen
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-06T03:18:25Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-06T03:18:25Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9109
dc.description.abstract	here is a debate on the nature of Ethiopia’s political-economic system.On the one hand,the government and/or the ruling party advocates and legitimizes the system as being purely democratic developmental state model as it experiences a constitutional democracy and the one which scored a double digit economic growth for about a decade.While others specially international institutions and observers endorsing the developmental model by the economic growth the country has scored question the democracy.Where as,others specially on the side of political opposition reject both argumenst as both democracy and development of Ethiopia are of an aborted attempts.They add the democratic model of the ruling party,revolutionary democracy,is paradox as there have not been any revolution since it was installed as a government.Besides,the alleged development barely improved the number of the rural farmer percentage from 85% to 83% with 27 years hence,the development is ironic.The study tried to examine the politics of developmentalism being provoked by the ruling party by looking some contending narratives on this and counter narratives of political opposition like neoliberalism.Besides,it tried to explore if the impact of neoliberalism on the developmental model of Ethiopian political economy is abundant.To achieve this objective the study employed a qualitative approach relying on primary and secondary sources of data.The key informants were a purposively selected interviewees.The research finding revealed that the Ethiopian political system though developmental in its behavior as the government advocates,authoritarian developemtalist model best explains its nature than democratic developmentalist.This is because those constitutional principles,enshrined under FDRE constitution theoretically,faced problems of practical political application.Besides,the research found that both in political & economic aspects,attributes of liberalism are seen putting their impact on the developmental model of the state.The main conclusion made from the findings is that on both development and democracy on political & economic aspects,the Ethiopian system lacks coherent ideology & is therefore a mixture of develpemental & liberal while adopting some attributes of an authoritarian developmentalist like Korea & Taiwan and liberal democratic developmentalist like Japan.Finally,recommendations are made esteemed from the major research findigs.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Political Science	en_US
dc.title	The Developmental State-Neoliberalism Debate: Exploring Ethiopia’s Political Economy	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US