| 期刊全称 | A Tributary Model of State Formation | | 期刊简称 | Ethiopia, 1600-2015 | | 影响因子2023 | Berhanu Abegaz | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Presents a concise characterization of the Afro-Asiatic model of tributary state formation.Focuses on case studies that represent the three variants of the Ethiopian state since the 1600s.Offers theor | | 学科分类 | Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | . .A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015. addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state. Using a comparative-institutionalist framework, this book explores why Ethiopia, an Afroasian civilizational state, has yet to build a modern political order comprising a sturdy state, the rule of law, and accountability to the ruled. The book provides a theoretical framework that contrasts the European and the Afroasian modes of state formation and explores the three major variants of the Ethiopian state since 1600 (Gondar, Shewa, and Revolutionary). It does this by employing the conceptual entry point of tributarism and teases out the implications of this perspective for refashioning the embattled postcolonial African political institutions. The primary contribution of the book is the novel framing of state formation through the lens of a landed Afroasiatic peasantry in giving rise to afragile state whose redistributive preoccupation preempted the emergence of a productive economy to serve as a buoyant revenue base. Unlike feudal Europe, the dependence of the Afroasian state on arm’s-length overlordship | | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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