Ethiopia :  the challenge of democracy from below / 
edited by Bahru Zewde and Siegfried Pausewang. 
 - Uppsala :  Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,  c2002. 
 - 215 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Produced as the result of a collaborative venture between the Forum for Social Studies and the Chr. Michelsen Institute with funding from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212). 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Bahru Zewde -- Systems of local governance among the Gurage / Bahru Zewde -- Sera : traditionalism or living democratic values? : case study among the Sidama in southern Ethiopia / Øyvind Aadland -- Seera : a traditional institution of Kambata / Yacob Arsano -- Models of democracy, perceptions of power : government and peasantry in Ethiopia / Harald Aspen -- Peasant participation in land reform : the Amhara land redistribution of 1997 / Svein Ege -- No environmental protection without local democracy? / Siegfried Pausewang -- Civil society organizations in Ethiopia / Dessalegn Rhamato -- The role of NGOs in protecting democratic values / Kassahun Berhanu -- Decentralization in Ethiopia / Mehret Ayenew -- Mengistulore : oral literatures depicting the man, his regime, officials and proclamations / Fekade Azeze -- Democratisation and gender / Original Wolde Giorgis -- The state of the press in Ethiopia / Shimelis Bonsa. 
<br/><br/><br/>eng 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9171065016  TZS 8,000/= 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democratization--Ethiopia.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>321.80063 ETH