Yohannes Gedamu is a Lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia.

1. Introduction Part 1: The Foundations to Understanding the Politics of Ethiopia 2. Historical Overview of Political Regimes in Pre-1974 Ethiopia 3. The Rise and Fall of the Military Regime and the Emergence of the Tigray People's Liberation Front-Led-Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 4. A Review of the Contemporary Literature on Authoritarian Survival and Ethnic Federalism 5. The Strategic Elite and Institutional Designs in Ethiopia: Question of Rights Part 2: Ethnic Federalism, an Authoritarian Coalition, and Political Change in Ethiopia 6. Ethiopia's Ethnic Federalism: Institutional Frameworks as Mechanisms for Authoritarian Survival 7. Ethnic Federalism and the EPRDF's Systemic Co-Optation Mechanisms for Survival 8. Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethnic Federalism, and the Anatomy of a Party-State's Economy 9. Critical Junctures in the Rise and Decline of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front 10. A Defunct Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the Emergence of the Prosperity Party, and the Fall of the Tigray People's Liberation Front 11. Conclusion