Following the implementation of ethnic federalism in 1995, for the first time, government officials have been appointed from among the various ethnic groups rather than being only drawn from the central Ethiopian highlands. As such, they carry the responsibility of mediating and translating between two rather different worlds and value systems: those of the state and state law and those of the local population, many of whom continue to widely apply customary law. Many of these native government officials find themselves in a normative dilemma, as they have to balance the, often contradictory, expectations of the government and the local population.

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当“街头官僚”充当文化经纪人时：埃塞俄比亚南部政府官员的规范困境和个人承诺

1995 年实行民族联邦制后，政府官员首次从各民族中任命，而不是仅从埃塞俄比亚中部高地选拔。因此，他们承担着在两个截然不同的世界和价值体系之间进行调解和翻译的责任：国家和州法律的世界和价值体系以及当地居民的价值体系，其中许多人继续广泛适用习惯法。许多当地政府官员发现自己处于规范的两难境地，因为他们必须平衡政府和当地居民的通常相互矛盾的期望。