) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …

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 …

all donors promised to support democracy in MENA countries, none had a clear strategy for doing so via their development …