Albert Science International Organization

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: 
Basha Bekele, The inevitability of intergovernmental relations in [multinational] federalism: a comprehensive review, ASIO Journal of Humanities, Management & Social Sciences Invention (ASIO-JHMSSI), 2022, 8(2): 08-13.

Student of Doctor of Education (DED), Department of Civics and Ethical Studies, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia.

Doi : 10.2016-14781119; DOI Link :: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2022-97654278/ASIO-JHMSSI/10.2016-14781119/V8/I2/750

ABSTRACT:
Federalism is just an institutional arrangement whereby the power constitutionally (theoretically) divided between the central and federating units. It needs the formal or informal arrangements binding the system vertically or horizontally. Thus, Intergovernmental relations have become the glues that attach the central government with the regional constituents and the local governments with the regions or the centers according to the mechanisms precisely designed by each federal state with its respective agenda of organizing the IGR. Particularly, in multinational federalism where the peoples and the nationalities of different backgrounds united, it needs to work to evaporate the feelings of asymmetric treatments. To do so, it then mandates to have a forum of communal representation to all nationalities either in executive or legislative spheres and which consequently brings the sense of belongingness. So, the lubricated operation of the federal system requires the establishment of intergovernmental relations.
Key terms: Federalism, Intergovernmental relations, central government, regional government.

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