- Doctoral student
- Date
- Thursday 12 Dec 2019, 16:00 - 18:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 12 December 2019, Tefera Negash Gebregziabher will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'The Party that Consumes the State: The rise of oligarchy in post-1991 Ethiopia'
Power concentration within the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
The thesis studies power concentration through an examination of how the top echelon of the party apparatus has amassed political power and has managed to project that power on to the economy and the mechanisms associated with the politics-wealth nexus for close to three decades.
The main argument of the thesis is that an Ethiopian oligarchy has emerged under the EPRDF regime, as manifested in the political economy of growth, the creation of major conglomerates and the holding onto state power by ruling party elites.
The thesis shows that the reference to some leftist ideological principles as well as the policies and practice of the regime have obscured the concentration of political and economic power by the politico-military elites.
Doctoral board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
Professor Wil Hout
Emeritus Professor Mohamed Salih
Members of the Full Doctoral Committee
Professor Kassahun Berhanu, Addis Ababa University
Dr Jean-Nicholas Bach, University of Bordeaux
Dr Lovise Aalen, Christian Michelsen Institute
Professor Lindsey Whitfield, Roskilde University
Professor Jan Abbink, Leiden University
Dr Karim Kniou, ISS
- More information
The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
This Public Defence will be broadcast live via ISS Livestream