Bulletin n. 1/2017
June 2017
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Midega Milkessa
    Ethiopian Federalism and the Ethnic Politics of Divided Cities: Consociationalism without Competitive Multiparty Politics in Dire Dawa
    in Ethnopolitics , Volume 16, Issue 3 ,  2017 ,  279-294
    In addition to regional-states, Ethiopia also has two federally chartered cities. This paper is an examination of the semi-consociational system found in the city of Dire Dawa, situated between the Somali regional-state of Ethiopia and Oromia. There is a power-sharing arrangement that the Federal Government has imposed on the ethnic groups competing for the control of Dire Dawa. There is segmental autonomy, proportionality, and a grand coalition; yet this has taken place outside the formal constitutional framework. The arrangement seems to have contained the more combative elements of ethnic nationalism, but relative political stability has come at the expense of grassroots democracy.
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