Democracy support and development aid:The elusive synthesis

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 12-26

  Carothers, Thomas ^a  

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References (17)

1. On the emergence of somewhat distinct political and developmental substreams of democracy aid, see Thomas Carothers, "Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?" Journal of Democracy 20 (January 2009): 5-19.
2. Integrating Human Rights into Development: Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges (Paris: OECD, 2006).
3. USAID Guinea, "Strategy Statement," 14 February 2006.
4. U.K. Department for International Development, "Building Peaceful States and Societies," DFID Practice Paper, 2010.
5. See also Asia Foundation, "Political Settlements: Implications for International Development Policy and Practice," Occasional Paper No. 2, July 2010.
6. nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2010).
7. For a fuller account, see Catherine Weaver, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), ch. 4.
8. World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1989).
9. Moisés Naím, "Latin America: The Second Stage of Reform," Journal of Democracy 5 (October 1994): 32-48.
10. Weaver, Hypocrisy Trap, 93.
11. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) explicitly connects political and socioeconomic issues in its development work. It includes democracy and governance indicators in its country-selection criteria (although some nondemocracies, such as Morocco, have nevertheless qualified for MCC compacts) and emphasizes what it sees as a prodemocratic emphasis on country ownership in the process of formulating country-assistance programs.
12. Sue Unsworth, "What's Politics Got to Do with It? Why Donors Find It So Hard to Come to Terms with Politics, and Why This Matters," Journal of International Development 21 (2009): 883-94.
13. See for example, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi, "Governance Matters VIII, Governance Indicators for 1996-2008," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4978, 2009.
14. For example, Paul Collier's finding that elections in fragile states tend to increase political violence is held up in some development circles as powerful evidence of the dangers of attempting to foster democracy in such places. See Collier, War, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (New York: HarperCollins, 2009).
15. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
16. "Sweden takes a multidimensional view of poverty that goes beyond lack of resources to embrace lack of freedom and political power as well." Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, "Change for Freedom: Policy for Democratic Development and Human Rights in Swedish Development Cooperation, 2010-2014," 21 January 2010, 8.
17. Thomas Carothers, "The Continuing Backlash Against Democracy Promotion," in Peter Burnell and Richard Youngs, eds., New Challenges to Democratization (London: Routledge, 2010), ch. 4.