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Challenges of Ethnic Representation in Ethiopia and the Need for Reform

open access: yesMizan Law Review, 2018
Although the Ethiopian federal dispensation legitimizes political participation based on ethnic identity, the arrangement, both through design and political practice, has led to the skewed representation of ethnic groups.
Beza Dessalegn
doaj   +1 more source

Nationalist movements and the state in Canada and France : ethno-territorial protest movements in Québec and Corsica, 1960 to 1995 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Since the early 1960s ethno-territorial movements have increasingly challenged established patterns of political integration in western democracies.
Lammert, Christian
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Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

ETHNO-HISTORICAL COMPONENT OF THE UKRAINIAN FEDERALISM

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The author considers ethnic and historical factors of Ukraine state development as probable preconditions for transition of administrative-territorial structure to federalism and an obstacle to formation of all-Ukrainian national identity.
V. E. Matveev
doaj  

What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians' personality is believed to play a central role in their electoral success. It is unclear, however, how important different traits are to voters and how the impact of personality compares to that of other well‐studied individual characteristics of politicians, such as gender, age, and political experience.
Thomas Bergeron   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multicultural Citizenship and the Status of ‘Others’ in the Post 1991 Ethiopia: A Study on Membership and Self-Governing Status of Amhara People in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2019
Following the regime change in 1991, the Ethiopian government sought to institutionalize inclusive multicultural citizenship in the country. Membership status and selfgoverning rights are crucial entitlements in the multiculturalists’ notion of ...
Ketemaw Tiruneh Muluye
doaj   +1 more source

Openness as a political commitment

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
wiley   +1 more source

Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

TPLF’s annexation of Wolkait, Ethiopia: motivations, strategies, and interests

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
Ethiopia has been riddled with conflicts of varying nature and magnitude, some of which have threatened its very survival. It was to stem this scourge of conflicts that ethnic-based federalism was adopted in 1991.
Alene Kassaw, Mbabazi Veneranda
doaj   +1 more source

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