meaningless shams or engines of democratization. Comparison of the experiences of South Korea and Taiwan can offer insight into …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the …

. Scholarship on international democracy promotion is yet to theorise how democracy can be protected from autocratization. Such a … international relations and comparative politics in the study of democracy promotion. However, such a combined perspective is still … evidence from democratization research. This paper addresses this research gap. It is the first attempt to develop a concept …

process of democratizing money. After examining the various interpretations of the term "democratization", we focus on one … contribute to financial inclusion. While each category appears to be capable of contributing to the democratization of money …

Blair et al. (2023) examine the effect of UN peacekeeping on democratization in conflict-affected countries. They use … fixed effects and instrumental variable estimators and find evidence that "UN missions with democracy promotion mandates are … strongly positively correlated with the quality of democracy in host countries but that the magnitude of the relationship is …