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for considering the evidence, bringing together core theories of democratization with work on foreign aid effectiveness …. Overall, the evidence is most consistent with institutional and agentbased theories of exogenous democratization, and least … democratization. …
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new opportunities. The global momentum of democratization, which had appeared to run out of steam, could be reinvigorated … North Africa specifically. It should also take account of what the experience of democratization elsewhere tells us and the …
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Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet systematic research on this topic typically focuses on how aid influences democratic transitions. This study investigates whether and how foreign aid affects the process of...
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Since the era of one-party rule, Malawi's relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious. During the second term of Malawi's current president, Bingu wa Mutharika, this trend has continued apace, with important implications for the consolidation of the country's nascent...
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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 …
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Ghana's experience since the early 1990s indicates that external aid can significantly impact a country';s democratic transition. External democracy assistance has been a crucial, positive factor in Ghana's steady evolution into an electoral democracy over the past two decades. Continuing gaps...
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institutions, and accountability in relation to tolerance of participation by the media and civil society in the political process … time when economic growth and new foreign partners may strengthen the executive office vis-à-vis civil society, opposition …. -- Zambia ; aid ; democracy ; political parties ; civil society …
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How does aid impact democracy in sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on existing literature, this study elaborates on the various channels, direct and indirect, through which development and democracy aid has influenced transitions to multi-party regimes and democratic consolidation within the region....
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reoriented their assistance in order to target specific issues like the strengthening of civil society, accountability and the …
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and services sector, and in particular on the government and civil society sub-category. Our analysis reveals that, while …
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