Mulu, Bekalu (2015) The Move Towards Developmental State in FDRE: The Role of Intergovernmental Relation (IGR) for Its Implementation Preserving the Autonomy of Reginal States. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
After a period of long debate and confrontation between the two giant economic paradigms, [capitalism and socialism], to realize economic development on countries of the world, another view of economic theory, developmental state ideology come to over flood the development scholarship following the South East Asian countries developmental miracle, by implementing the latter. Nowadays, many countries including Ethiopia are inclined towards the developmental state paradigm by intending to grasp its developmental benefits reaped by the Asian Tigers. Transplanting a developmental ideology with its best practice from countries that had a highly centralized beaurocracy with a unitary form of state structure that help to easily frame a homogenous developmental policy overall their country may seem vague for a country, Ethiopia, having a constitutionally guaranteed federal form of state structure with significant autonomy of regional states to design and implement their respective economic, social and developmental policies and strategies. This research reveals some of the difficulties to implement a developmental state economic ideology in federal Ethiopia, on the one hand and how its unmanaged rush towards its implementation affect the autonomy of regional states, on the other. In doing so weather, there exist any possible means and institutional solution to resolve this contradiction is the central question of the research. The research underscores that Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) with its guideline and institutions could serve as a best solution and bridge between the contradictory points of developmental state and federalism. Intensive and a duly managed use of IGRs between the federal and regional states may help a federal country like Ethiopia to balance regional states autonomy, to design and implement their developmental policies and strategies [prior concern of the country’s federalism] with the demand of a developmental state ideology, for a harmonized and parallel developmental policy all over the country. However, this research finds that, little emphasis has given to the area of IGRs in Ethiopia that, it fails to play its great roll of being a forum of policy harmonization between the federal and regional states of the country than being a center to dictate the wish of the central government to regional states on national developmental policy matters.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Development, Developmental State, Ethiopia, Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2018 07:49 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2018 07:49 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/5160 |
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