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.