Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It … its extractive capacities since democratization. However, the effect of democratization has been largely indirect, while …

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. …

evidence from democratization research. This paper addresses this research gap. It is the first attempt to develop a concept …