Improving Democracy Assistance

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Improving Democracy Assistance

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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2008-06-26

Improving Democracy Assistance written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-26 with Political Science categories.

Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.

Enhancing Democracy Assistance

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Author : Lincoln Abraham Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Enhancing Democracy Assistance written by Lincoln Abraham Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Democracy categories.

This report recognizes that democracy assistance is essential to the promotion of US foreign policy and global interests, and offers political and technical recommendations in order to enhance democracy assistance. Today's global setting poses several distinct challenges to democracy assistance. Countries such as China offer an alternative model of governance that promotes economic development without political reform, while wielding substantial economic leverage. Populist authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies, such as those of Venezuela and Iran, claim popular legitimacy while cracking down on internal dissent. Challenges to democratization have also been exacerbated by the Iraq War and the Global War on Terror (GWOT), which have fueled anti-Americanism around the globe, undermined US credibility, overstretched US resources, and compromised domestic support for democracy assistance. ... In order to address negative perceptions of democracy assistance around the world and to rebuild bipartisan support at home, it is necessary to reframe the means and ends of assistance efforts. The democracy assistance community can maximize the impact of its activities by planning for the long term, insuring better training and preparation for field staff, and emphasizing more rigorous project evaluation. This report offers recommendations to hone proven approaches to democracy assistance, specifically, programs that strengthen civil society, prepare elections, assist political party development, and support democratic governance. It also identifies different regime types that are the focus of democracy assistance -- authoritarian states, illiberal democracies, free-wheeling kleptocracies, and post-conflict states. While recognizing that the distinctions among them are not iron-clad, the report offers context-specific recommendations for each.

Assessing Democracy Assistance

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Author : Thomas Carothers
language : en
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Release Date : 1996

Assessing Democracy Assistance written by Thomas Carothers and has been published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Political Science categories.

In recent years, assistance aimed at promoting democracy abroad has become a major component of U.S. foreign aid and of the U.S. government's post-Cold War policy of seeking to enlarge the international community of democratic nations. Despite its rapid growth, however, democracy assistance remains poorly understood in practice and its value is frequently questioned. This landmark study, an examination of U.S. democracy assistance efforts in Romania, is the first comprehensive analysis of the workings--and failings--of U.S. democracy assistance in one country. Based on the author's extensive field research, the study provides widely applicable answers to key questions about the value, strategies, methods, and future of such assistance.

Democracy

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Author : Larry Diamond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09-07

Democracy written by Larry Diamond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-07 with Political Science categories.

Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A Reader brings together the seminal works that have appeared in its pages in nearly twenty years of publication. Democracy is in retreat around the world, giving renewed relevance and urgency to fundamental questions about the system that nevertheless remains the ideal standard of governance. Contributors ask: What exactly is democracy, and what sustains it? What institutions are best suited to a democratic system? Can elections produce undemocratic outcomes? Is democracy a universal value? Democracy: A Reader addresses these important concerns with critical discussions on delegative democracy, social capital, constitutional design, federalism, hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism, and more. With such influential contributors as Francis Fukuyama, Robert Putnam, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anwar Ibrahim, this is an indispensable resource for students of democracy and instructors at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Contributors: Michael E. Alvarez, Nancy Bermeo, Russell Bova, José Antonio Cheibub, Larry Diamond, Jørgen Elklit, Abdou Filali-Ansary, M. Steven Fish, Francis Fukuyama, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Donald L. Horowitz, Anwar Ibrahim, Terry Lynn Karl, Steven Levitsky, Arend Lijphart, Fernando Limongi, Vali Nasr, Guillermo O'Donnell, Marc F. Plattner, Adam Przeworski, Robert D. Putnam, Andrew Reynolds, Giovanni Sartori, Andreas Schedler, Philippe C. Schmitter, Amartya Sen, Alfred Stepan, Palle Svensson, Nicolas van de Walle, Lucan A. Way

Technical Assistance To The Lao People S Democratic Republic For Strengthening The Capacity Of Aid Coordination And Monitoring

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Technical Assistance To The Lao People S Democratic Republic For Strengthening The Capacity Of Aid Coordination And Monitoring written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Economic assistance categories.

Technical Assistance To The Lao People S Democratic Republic For Preparing The Northern And Central Region Water Supply And Urban Development Project

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Author : J. Hakim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Technical Assistance To The Lao People S Democratic Republic For Preparing The Northern And Central Region Water Supply And Urban Development Project written by J. Hakim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with City planning categories.

Dilemmas Of Political Transition

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Author : Shumbana Karume
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Dilemmas Of Political Transition written by Shumbana Karume and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.

Eu Support For Governance In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Eu Support For Governance In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the main beneficiaries of EU support, with about 1.9 billion euro of assistance provided between 2003 and 2011. In this report, the European Court of Auditors assessed if the Commission and the EEAS managed effectively EU support for governance and whether this support achieved its planned results. It focused on key areas of governance: the electoral process, justice and police, public finance management reforms and the decentralisation process. It concludes that EU support has been set within a generally sound cooperation strategy, addressing main needs, but progress has been slow, uneven and overall limited. Sustainability was an unrealistic prospect for most projects examined. This was in part due to the fragile country context but also due to shortcomings in the way in which the Commission and the EEAS have managed their cooperation with the DRC. -- EU Bookshop.

Technical Assistance To The Democratic Republic Of Timor Leste For Infrastructure Sectors Capacity Development

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Author : M. J. Minc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Technical Assistance To The Democratic Republic Of Timor Leste For Infrastructure Sectors Capacity Development written by M. J. Minc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Infrastructure (Economics) categories.

Third Ministerial Conference Of The Community Of Democracies

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Third Ministerial Conference Of The Community Of Democracies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Democracy categories.