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Ethnic federalism, multi-ethnic or multi-national federalism, is a form of federal system in which the federated regional or state units are defined by ethnicity. Ethnic federal systems have been created in attempts to accommodate demands for ethnic autonomy and manage inter-ethnic tensions within a state.
ethno-, ethnic, plurinational, or multinational federalism, the design of federal subunit boundaries to conform to the territorial distribution of ethnic groups continues to generate controversy among scholars of institutional design.1 For some, it is an effective means of alleviating deep ethnic divisions that can help
Jul 1, 2014 · Abstract. Scholars are divided on the merits of ethnofederalism as an institutional approach to the management of ethnically divided societies. For some, ethnofederalism is a potentially workable compromise between the demands for independence of territorially concentrated ethnic groups and the desire of a common state to preserve its ...
- Liam Anderson
- 2014
Liam Anderson. Wright State University; Liam.anderson@wright.edu. The use of ethnofederalism as an institutional means of managing ethnic problems remains con. troversial. For critics, it is an imprudent institutional choice that hardens and deepens ethnic. divisions and all but guarantees secession and state collapse.
Here, federalism is viewed as a political and institutional arrangement to accommodate national/ethnic groups within the boundaries of a given state. This approach does. 29 D. Babalola, “Nigeria: A Federation in Search of Federalism,” 50 Shades of Federalism (2017) http://50shadesoffederalism.com/case-studies/nigeria-federation-search ...
Much of its appeal and promise comes from the fact that it accords constitutional recognition to the claims of ethnic groups to constitute themselves as self-governing polities within their own regions, within a federal framework In theory, this arrangement would satisfy the desire of ethnic groups to be different, while at the same time ...
Apr 5, 2019 · Many observers have concluded that the main culprit behind the surge in violence is Ethiopia’s ethno-national federal arrangement, which grants bigger ethnic groups self-governance rights...
