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 …

surprise. It challenged international democracy support to learn from its own limitations while potentially offering exciting …. The decline in fortunes that democracy support had sustained in recent years might be reversed. The recent development … spread of liberal democracy because of their increasing role in international politics and the developing world's rapidly …

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

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … the period from 1991 to 2008, we find that democracy and governance aid has a consistently positive effect on democratic …