Ethiopia : the challenge of democracy from below - Bahru Zewde; Pausewang, Siegfried; Yama h |bara wi t |ena t madrak (Ethiopia) (Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies, 2002)
Introduction / Bahru Zewde -- Systems of local governance among the Gurage / Bahru Zewde -- Sera : traditionalism or living democratic values? : case study among the Sidama in southern Ethiopia / b yvind Aadland -- Seera : a traditional institution of Kambata / Yacob Arsano -- Models of democracy, perceptions of power : government and peasantry in Ethiopia / Harald Aspen -- Peasant participation in land reform : the Amhara land redistribution of 1997 / Svein Ege -- No environmental protection without local democracy? / Siegfried Pausewang -- Civil society organizations in Ethiopia / Dessalegn Rhamato -- The role of NGOs in protecting democratic values / Kassahun Berhanu -- Decentralization in Ethiopia / Mehret Ayenew -- Mengistulore : oral literatures depicting the man, his regime, officials and proclamations / Fekade Azeze -- Democratisation and gender / Original Wolde Giorgis -- The state of the press in Ethiopia / Shimelis Bonsa.
Produced as the result of a collaborative venture between the Forum for Social Studies and the Chr. Michelsen Institute with funding from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212)
Keywords: Democratization -- Ethiopia; Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 1991-