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Author:<\/strong> Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe (World Peace Foundation, Tufts University)<\/p>\n

This report discusses how the Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), from operating on the logic of a centralized political market, degenerated into an oligopolistic monopoly and later into a neo-patrimonial state that operates on patronage and sustaining disorder while maintaining a simulacrum of an institutionalized state. The report is divided into four parts. The first part discusses the genesis of the EPRDF and its highly centralized public service monopoly in government. The second part discusses the beginning of the end of the EPRDF\u2019s centralized public service monopoly. The third part discusses the complete transformation of the state into what is called a typical African \u2018big man\u2019 politics. The fourth and final part is the conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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