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Between Control and Cooperation: Multi-Stakeholder Service Provision and the Legitimacy of State Institutions in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State

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  • Nora Stel

    (Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

  • Fenta Mandefro Abate

    (Department of Public Administration and Development Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

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This article contributes to nascent scholarship on the relations between multi-stakeholder service delivery and state legitimacy in development settings. On the basis of qualitative analysis of two multi-stakeholder projects (MSPs) for water provision in Ethiopia, we find that the specific process of interaction between state institutions and non-state actors (both citizens and organizations) affects state legitimacy as a function of joint service delivery more profoundly than the outputs of this process. We explore this process of interaction by looking at division of roles, communication, decision making and accountability. However, placing our empirical findings in the context of Ethiopia’s broader political economy questions the effect of local MSPs on aggregated notions of legitimacy.

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  • Nora Stel & Fenta Mandefro Abate, 2014. "Between Control and Cooperation: Multi-Stakeholder Service Provision and the Legitimacy of State Institutions in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 26(5), pages 743-760, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:26:y:2014:i:5:p:743-760
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    1. Usman, Muhammed Abdella & Gerber, Nicolas & Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie, 2016. "Determinants of Household Drinking Water Quality in Rural Ethiopia," Discussion Papers 241763, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
    2. Hailu, Reta & Tolossa, Degefa, 2020. "Multi-stakeholder platforms: Institutional options to achieve water security in the awash basin of Ethiopia," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 19(C).

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