Abdullahi Abshir Abdirahman
Abstract
This study aims at investigating the impact of federalism on state building in Somalia. Federalism is a constitutional manner for breaking up the power between the central government and its member states, so that federated units and state are a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. Thus, federalism incorporates partial self-government with collaborative government. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of federalism on state building in Somalia. There have been imaginative efforts to trace the history of federalism back into antiquity, the United States Constitution 1787 is the earliest example of a modern federal constitution. Federalism, the division of sovereign authority among levels of government, can be seen as a way of stabilizing, or making credible, decentralized governmental structures. The study is cross-sectional and quantitative in nature to establish the relationship between federalism and state building in Somalia. The population of the study is unknown; therefore, the study used 100 respondents comprising of civil society, politicians, and civil servants that were most important sources to get reliable information about the study. The data has been analyzed by using statistical package for social sciences SPSS.
Keywords: Federalism, central government, member states, state building, Good Governance
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