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 …, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

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 …

. These results have significant implications for the consolidation of Mexico's young democracy. Understanding the long …

surprise. It challenged international democracy support to learn from its own limitations while potentially offering exciting … new opportunities. The global momentum of democratization, which had appeared to run out of steam, could be reinvigorated …. The decline in fortunes that democracy support had sustained in recent years might be reversed. The recent development …

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 …

implications for the consolidation of the country's nascent democracy. Donors providing democracy aid have assisted with the …, the concentration of funding around elections, and a reluctance to support political parties hinders the size of democracy …'s fertilizer input subsidy programme. To prevent an erosion of democracy caused by violations of civil liberties, donors often have …

democratization. This study first explores the ways in which foreign donors directly strengthen civil society, parties, the media, as … accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. -- Tanzania ; democratization ; accountability ; foreign aid …