Harmonizing Ethnic Claims in Africa: a Proposal for Ethnic-based Federalism
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Most African states are unitary with political power vested in the central government. Laws and decisions concerning the public sector are enacted and enforced by the central government.1 Authority is delegated to junior government officials who implement policies within rigid guidelines. Provincial and district levels of government serve administrative roles but do not make laws, collect taxes, or make spending decisions.2 Strictly speaking, political power is centrally concentrated with heads of states holding the power over all public policies affecting the polity. In most African states, no constitutional limitations constrain the central authority in its exercise of power over public activities at all levels. The unitary states of Africa largely reflect the colonial legacy. European colonial powers subdivided the African continent among themselves, establishing boundaries that arbitrarily linked heterogeneous
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تاریخ انتشار 1998