Table of Contents
Abstract ... 1 Acknowledgements ... 2 List of Tables ... 5 List of Figures ... 6 Introduction ... 71. Contribution to New Knowledge ... 9
2. Scope and Limitations ... 10
3. Significance of the Study ... 12
4. Selection of Study Areas ... 13
5. Thesis Overview ... 15
Chapter 1 Theoretical Background ... 17
1.1. Some Conceptual Problems in the Institutional Perspective ... 21
1.2. Collaborative Planning and the System Context: Bringing the State Back in ... 26
1.3. Trust, Collective Action and Quality of Government ... 35
1.4. Assessing State Effectiveness in Local Government-driven Collaborative Planning and Action ... 42
1.4.1. Meso Level Effectiveness Criteria ... 47
1.4.2. Micro Level Effectiveness Criteria ... 54
Chapter 2 Conceptual Approach and Research Methodologies ... 60
2.1. Operational Definitions and the Analytical Framework ... 61
2.2. Research Premise, Main Objectives and Questions ... 63
2.3. Research Methods and Sampling ... 65
Chapter 3 The Ethiopian System Context ... 77
3.1. Urbanization and Planning ... 77
3.2. Land Policy and Tenure Security ... 82
3.4. The ‘Developmental State’ and the Political Economy of Partial Government Systems ... 90
3.5. Generalized Trust and Collective Action ... 94
Chapter 4 Government Systems, Trust and Collective Action: the case of Amdework ... 98
4.1. Background ... 98
4.2. Capacity and Political Will ... 101
4.3. State-society Relations ... 112
4.3.1. Language and Ethnicity ... 112
4.3.2. Alternative Sources of Power ... 117
4.3.3. Access to Public Resources and Government Authority ... 122
4.3.4. Generalized Trust and Confidence in Local Government ... 125
4.4. A Whole Other Different Story: Experiences from two planning projects ... 128
Chapter 5 Planning for the Awra Amba Community and the BuraNest Experience ... 136
5.1. Awra Amba ... 137
5.2. BuraNest ... 144
Chapter 6 Collective Action in Addis Ababa ... 160
6.1. Ethnocentric Federalism and Collaborative Planning: ‘The Addis Ababa Master Plan’ . 161 6.2. Local Government-residents Collaboration in Neighborhood Upgrading ... 178
6.3. Bottom-up Neighborhood Development Initiatives ... 200
Chapter 7 Conclusions ... 211
7.1. Revisiting Hypotheses ... 211
7.2. Theoretical Implications of the Study ... 215
7.3. Further Research and Empirical Implications ... 221
7.4. Lessons from Awra Amba and BuraNest and Practical Implication ... 222
References ... 225