Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa
@article{Brown2005ForeignAA, title={Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa}, author={Stephen Brown}, journal={The European Journal of Development Research}, year={2005}, volume={17}, pages={179-198} }
AbstractThe disappointing results of international democratisation efforts are oftenattributed to domestic conditions that make it difficult for democracy to be
established or survive. This paper recognises that the process is largely an
endogenous one and that significant structural impediments exist. It argues
that international actors, though for the most part absent from current theories of democratisation, can nonetheless play a very important role in promoting (or preventing…
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