In 1991 the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Forces (EPRDF), the new party and former insurgent movement that assumed power in Ethiopia, announced a program of democratization and multi-party politics. But after 20 years of rule, no electoral alternation of power on either the national or local level has yet occurred, and what seems to have been institut...

In 1991 the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Forces (EPRDF), the new party and former insurgent movement that assumed power in Ethiopia, announced a program of democratization and multi-party politics. But after 20 years of rule, no electoral alternation of power on either the national or local level has yet occurred, and what seems to have been institut...