Associate Professor Juan Tellez and PhD candidate Braeden Davis published an article on ethnic federalism in Ethiopia in the Journal of Conflict Resolution

Juan Tellez and Braeden Davis's new research published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution examines public attitudes toward ethnic federalism — a system that organizes subnational governments along ethnic lines — in Ethiopia. Using survey experiments with Ethiopian university students, the study investigates two core tensions: where ethnic group members should live relative to their designated state, and how power should be divided between central and regional governments. The findings reveal that while average support for ethnic federalism is unaffected by shifts in power distribution, politically and ethnically intolerant individuals respond strongly to state-level devolution, with security policy emerging as the dominant concern. This research underscores the importance of micro-level perspectives for understanding the stability and reform of ethno-federal systems. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027261427753