Abyotawidemocracy: neither revolutionary nor democratic, a critical review of EPRDF's conception of revolutionary democracy in post-1991 Ethiopia

Bach, Jean-Nicolas

doi:10.1080/17531055.2011.642522

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Abyotawidemocracy: neither revolutionary nor democratic, a critical review of EPRDF's conception of revolutionary democracy in post-1991 Ethiopia

Published in Journal of Eastern African Studies • Nov 1, 2011

Authors:

Jean-Nicolas Bach

Abstract

Since 1991 and the arrival of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) into power, the Ethiopian ideologists have maintained revolutionary democracy (abyotawi democracy in Amharic) as their core doctrine. The notion inherited from the struggle (1970s–1980s) aims at legitimizing ...

Subject

Democracy

Authoritarianism

Doctrine

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