This article investigates the impact of European citizens' socio-economic backgrounds, political orientations and countries of origin on their support for democracy promotion in general and on democracy promotion via military means. Analyzing survey data from 11 European Union (EU) member...

Variation in the behavior and preferences of subnational governments is one of the areas that remain poorly understood by students of comparative decentralization and federalism. Yet, evidence suggests that this variation plays an important role in shaping intergovernmental relations. Ecuador...

In an effort to enhance the impact of development aid, recipients are called on to provide democratically sustained 'ownership' for development policies, and donors to align their interventions with these ownership-dictated strategies of their partners. This article illustrates the weaknesses of...

Summary This paper reveals how political institutions within OECD countries affect those countries' foreign policies toward the developing world. For identifying the overall development orientation, the paper uses the Commitment to Development Index, which aggregates different foreign policy...