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77958572408
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As Carothers notes, the democracy-support community generally views the right of people to have a say in how they are governed to be worthwhile as an end in itself; in this respect, it associates its work very much with the work of the human-rights community. Although Carothers does not address it, the evolution of views within the human-rights community toward development and democracy, and within the development and democracy communities toward the human-rights community-including the use of rights-based approaches to development-may also merit exploration
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As Carothers notes, the democracy-support community generally views the right of people to have a say in how they are governed to be worthwhile as an end in itself; in this respect, it associates its work very much with the work of the human-rights community. Although Carothers does not address it, the evolution of views within the human-rights community toward development and democracy, and within the development and democracy communities toward the human-rights community-including the use of rights-based approaches to development-may also merit exploration.
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Although specific examples and counterexamples may change, and new data are occasionally cited, the rough contours of the debate seem to have shifted little over the years
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Although specific examples and counterexamples may change, and new data are occasionally cited, the rough contours of the debate seem to have shifted little over the years.
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77958523760
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The exception, as Carothers points out, was the work carried out by the Free Trade Union Institute and the Center for International Private Enterprise
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The exception, as Carothers points out, was the work carried out by the Free Trade Union Institute and the Center for International Private Enterprise.
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77958517469
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The most severe critics of democracy support-not necessarily found in the development community-have sometimes disparaged democracy support as a matter of "exporting" or "imposing" democracy, suggesting that the choice of governmental system is best left to local interests. This view implies that democracy is simply one option on a menu of equally valid choices (along with semi-authoritarianism or kleptocracy?) to be chosen by a host-country government rather than its people. This view seems incompatible with notions of "country ownership." The democracy-support community views democracy as providing the mechanism for legitimate expression of country-level choice and ownership, based on a government that owes its powers to the freely expressed will of the people and on citizen participation in public affairs. It is authoritarianism, rather, that has to be "imposed"
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The most severe critics of democracy support-not necessarily found in the development community-have sometimes disparaged democracy support as a matter of "exporting" or "imposing" democracy, suggesting that the choice of governmental system is best left to local interests. This view implies that democracy is simply one option on a menu of equally valid choices (along with semi-authoritarianism or kleptocracy?) to be chosen by a host-country government rather than its people. This view seems incompatible with notions of "country ownership." The democracy-support community views democracy as providing the mechanism for legitimate expression of country-level choice and ownership, based on a government that owes its powers to the freely expressed will of the people and on citizen participation in public affairs. It is authoritarianism, rather, that has to be "imposed."
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