Assessing Democracy Assistance
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Author | : Thomas Carothers |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2013-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0870032968 |
In recent years, assistance aimed at promoting democracy abroad has become a major component of U.S. foreign aid and of the U.S. government's post-Cold War policy of seeking to enlarge the international community of democratic nations. Despite its rapid growth, however, democracy assistance remains poorly understood in practice and its value is frequently questioned. This landmark study, an examination of U.S. democracy assistance efforts in Romania, is the first comprehensive analysis of the workings—and failings—of U.S. democracy assistance in one country. Based on the author's extensive field research, the study provides widely applicable answers to key questions about the value, strategies, methods, and future of such assistance.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-06-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309177715 |
Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.
Author | : Paulina Pospieszna |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351717081 |
This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. It examines this theme in a comparative perspective and with a deeper analysis of reasons and ways to support young people, the need to support them and the effectiveness of these efforts. Bringing together a wide range of material on democracy assistance of Central and Eastern European countries that includes surveying the providers and beneficiaries of aid and looking for better methods of impact evaluation, the book advances a framework for assessing democracy assistance efforts. It concludes with implications of the impact of democracy assistance on young people and democracy diffusion from Central and Eastern European democracies to other countries. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, Central and Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet studies, and European and Comparative Politics, as well as for practitioners (donors, NGOs) who want to know what works best, and why and when in aid provision.
Author | : Paulina Pospieszna |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Democratization |
ISBN | : 9781315179681 |
This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. It examines this theme in a comparative perspective and with a deeper analysis of reasons and ways to support young people, the need to support them and the effectiveness of these efforts. Bringing together a wide range of material on democracy assistance of Central and Eastern European countries that includes surveying the providers and beneficiaries of aid and looking for better methods of impact evaluation, the book advances a framework for assessing democracy assistance efforts. It concludes with implications of the impact of democracy assistance on young people and democracy diffusion from Central and Eastern European democracies to other countries. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, Central and Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet studies, and European and Comparative Politics, as well as for practitioners (donors, NGOs) who want to know what works best, and why and when in aid provision.
Author | : Peter Burnell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135309612 |
This examination of how Western governments support democracy worldwide considers how countries use this aid. Attention is paid to post-conflict situations and semi-authoritarian regimes where democratization has stalled, and international support of democratic decentralization is assessed.
Author | : Helene Michou |
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Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : Sarah Sunn Bush |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107069645 |
Most government programs seeking to aid democracy abroad do not directly confront dictators. This book explains how organizational politics 'tamed' democracy assistance.
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The sub-theme of democracy building comprises support to UNDP ELECT; funding for the Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) to undertake electoral monitoring and observation activities; financial assistance to the Afghan Women's Network (AWN) to encourage women's participation in elections and to support women legislators elected to the new parliament; and core funding for the Af. [...] Agencies such as the FEFA, the Afghan Civil Society Forum (ACSF), the AIHRC, the Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN), Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) and the AWN are some of the main recipients of this type of donor funding and technical support. [...] Factors weakening the impact of democracy aid A number of factors weakening the impact of democracy assistance have already been discussed above: the lack of a coordinated vision for democratic development, missed opportunities early on in the intervention, the coinciding of democracy assistance with international military action and the lack of clarity over definitions of democracy. [...] This is all-pervasive and has specific effects on democracy assistance: from the prevention of freedom of speech due to fear of violent repercussions, to the unequal playing field created by key players carrying arms; from the rejection of the word 'democracy' due to its dangerous associations with the West, to a narrative of insecurity preventing women's participation in the public sphere. [...] In an interview for this study, reflecting the views of a number of respondents, Dr Abdullah Abdullah - the main opposition candidate for the presidential race in 2009 - described a lack of political will at the top as the key obstacle to democratic development: 'The main obstacle is that there is no commitment [to democracy] from the leadership, from those calling the shots.
Author | : David Beetham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9789185724444 |