What is it about?
This Article investigates the pattern of State-Civil Society relationship in the Ethiopian State Since 1991 and upto 2018. This relationship has been illustrated through different patterns, i.e. cooperation and/or co-optation and confrontation, between the two actors. The study primarily analyzed two supplementary notions: the politico-legal changes in the governance of Ethiopian csos, between 1991 and 2018, on the one hand, and the strategies employed by cso actors to deal with such changes in the same period, on the other hand.
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Why is it important?
This study is of paramount important as it sought to investigate the relationship and the practice between the Ethiopian state and csos through the illustration of different relationship patterns, i.e. cooperation and/or co-optation and confrontation, between the two actors and the implications thereof for the imperative of democratization in the country.
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It can be argued that the commonly held dichotomy which polarized the relation between the state and csos as a whole may have overlooked the nature of relationship between the two actors, which can range from overt and hidden tensions and active hostility to cooperation and collaboration, depending on various factors across time and space.
Bekalu Wachiso
Wolkite University
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This page is a summary of: Between Cooperation and/or Co-optation and Confrontation: Civil Society-State Relations in Ethiopia, Since 1991 up to 2018, Bandung, April 2021, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/21983534-08010005.
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