CHAPTER 3:................ METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND DATA COLLECTION 26 S
OURCES OF
“
EVIDENCE
”...............................................................................................................................26
Interviews ............................................................................................................................................27 Documents...........................................................................................................................................34 Literature.............................................................................................................................................36 CHAPTER 4: ETHIOPIAN FEDERALISM: IDEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATIONS AND POLITICAL USE........................................................................................................................................38 T
HE IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
:
THE RIGHT TO NATIONAL SELF
-
DETERMINATION
.......................................38
The unanswered question: secession or autonomy for Tigray?.....................................................38 “O
FFERING THE FEDERAL BARGAIN
”..............................................................................................................39
Decentralist federalism – a functionalist argument........................................................................40 A federal pact?....................................................................................................................................41 H
OSTILE OR HESITANT
:
THE OPPOSITION
’
S VIEW ON
EPRDF’
S FEDERAL PROJECT
......................................42
Parties favouring the restoration of the unitary state.....................................................................42 “Federalism, but not ethnically based”...........................................................................................43 “Ethnic federalism is only serving the interests of the TPLF” ......................................................45 EPRDF
FEDERALISM
:
IDEOLOGICALLY FOUNDED BUT PRAGMATICALLY USED
...........................................46
Divide and rule? .................................................................................................................................47 The only way to democratise and avert disintegration?.................................................................47 C
ONCLUSION
:
A FEDERAL PROJECT LACKING LEGITIMACY
...........................................................................48
