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Show 202 However, the three states quasi-federal many of them nondemocratic are now twenty-three independent countries, majoritarian ethnocracies" (Stepan 2001, Under the 319). p. current arrangement, the Ethiopian federal system will fall apart if the political system is opened up and Hence, competitive a number of federal system and the • First, the be changed. This in tum based encouraged. ethnicity a actions often implementation of ethnically requires de-emphasized. need to be as is practiced widely. regarding the structure of the and fiscal arrangements that it entails. configuration parties, nationally parties need to be made changes political current needs to be • electoral system under ethnic that ethnicity, Rather than Such as a society and regions • Third, increasing and negatively the impact tum or more regional implies states need to be In changed particular, that some the number of group of the bigger regions to the potentials need to be states. regional behind this is that with many smaller or even and design policies. states in the federation fiscal distributive conflict that the current system region ethnic lines needs to reflect their administrative and economic constraints, which in broken up into two along political undermine the potency of accommodate economic and administrative considerations. number of based action, because ethnically based collective of optimal economic the can should political identity marker, encouraging ethnically reorganization basis for collective Second, the jurisdictions of regional governments whose constituents crosscut parties polarize based potentially generates. regional states, regions controlling lessen the can the possibility the federal government is The logic of anyone significantly |
