Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: traditional authorities and multi-party elections in Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll & Tobias Hagmann -- Electoral politics in the Nuer cultural context / Dereje Feyissa -- Fishing for votes in the Somali region: clan elders, bureaucrats and party politics in the 2005 elections / Tobias Hagmann -- The family connection: inherited status and parliamentary elections in Dawro, southern Ethiopia / Data Dea Barata -- A revival of tradition? the power of clans and social strata in the Wolayta elections / Lovise Aalen -- Cynicism and hope: urban youth and relations of power during the 2005 Ethiopian elections / Daniel Mains -- Islam and politics: the EPRDF, the 2005 elections and Muslim institutions in Bale / Terje Ostebo -- We say they are Neftenya; they say we are OLF': a post-election assessment of ethnicity, politics and age-sets in Oromiya / Charles Schaefer -- Customary institutions in contemporary politics in Borana zone, Oromia, Ethiopia / Marco Bassi -- The 2005 elections in Maale: a reassertion of traditional authority or the extension of a nascent public sphere? / Donald L. Donham -- Epilogue: the 'new' Ethiopia: changing discourses of democracy / Kjetil Tronvoll.

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