Is Ethiopia Democratic? A Bureaucratic Authoritarian Regime

Issue Date October 1998
Volume 9
Issue 4
Page Numbers 62-69
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About the Author

John W. Harbeson is professor of political science at the City University of New York (the Graduate Center and City College). His books include The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the Post-Imperial State (1998). He is a former U.S. Institute of Peace fellow and Princeton Center of International Studies visiting fellow.

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