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 …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

in favor of development contracts, proposing to provide development aid only in exchange for democratization. However … of endogenous democratization. …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

Democracy', national platforms for and by political parties, assist parties in their key roles between citizen and state to …

Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about …

This study analyzes the dynamic impact of democratization on receipt of foreign aid. Since the 1990s, this relationship … democratic recipients and particularly countries undergoing democratization with higher aid. Is this empirically the case … address these questions, this study conceives democratization as a two-phase process of 'early transition' and 'democratic …

democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these … alleviation means less democratization, and vice versa. It is possible to overcome this trade-off, however, if one can arouse the … democratization, and that democratic governments as well as dictators do have a common interest in implementing it. …