- See, for example, Alence Rod Political institutions and developmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa The Journal of Modern African Studies June 2004 42 2 163 187
- For background reading on Ethiopian history, see Henze Paul Layers of Time: a history of Ethiopia Hurst & Co London 2000 and Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991 (Oxford: James Currey, 2nd ed. 2001).
- For a discussion of the implications of Ethiopia's size and diversity, see Clapham Christopher Ethiopia Africa's Big States Clapham Christopher Herbst Jeffrey Mills Greg 2004 forthcoming
- For a discussion of Ethiopia's ‘state culture’, see Vaughan Sarah Tronvoll Kjetil The Culture of Power in Contemporary Ethiopian Political Life Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Stockholm 2004
- See Tiruneh Andargachew The Ethiopian Revolution 1974–1987: a transformation from an aristocratic to a totalitarian autocracy Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1993
- For the guerilla origins of the present Ethiopian government, see Young John Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: the Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975–1991 Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1997
- See Clapham Christopher Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia , 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1990
- For a collection of studies of this process, see Remapping Ethiopia James Wendy Donham Donald Kurimoto Eisei Triulzi Alessandro James Currey Oxford 2002
- See Negash Tekeste Tronvoll Kjetil Brothers at War: making sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war James Currey Oxford 2000
- For the recent emergence of an Ethiopian ‘civil society’, see Vaughan Sarah Tronvoll Kjetil The Culture of Power in Contemporary Ethiopian Political Life Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Stockholm 2004
- For a forthcoming study, see Abegaz Berhanu Escaping Ethiopia's poverty trap: the case for a second agrarian reform The Journal of Modern African Studies September 2004 42 3
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