Promoting democracy abroad : policy and performance
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Promoting democracy abroad : policy and performance
Routledge, 2017, c2011
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"First published 2011 by Transaction Publishers ... First issued in paperback 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Promoting democracy has grown from a small, little- known activity to a high-profile endeavor. It now involves academia, think tanks, and the popular media. The number of countries and organizations, inter-governmental, non-governmental, as well as governmental involved in supporting the spread of democracy is now legion. Countries touched by these efforts include a majority of all the world's states and some independent territories that are not yet fully sovereign.
The definitional boundaries between promoting democracy and international advocacy and defense of human rights and "good governance" are not precise. Similarly, the concept of promoting democracy itself is not uniformly accepted. It has become a slogan that attracts both fervent support and grave condemnation. For Burnell, promoting democracy refers to a wide range of non-coercive attempts to spread democracy abroad for whatever reason. At its heart, it is political intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries that seeks to affect the distribution of power, whether by patient and non-violent involvement or more urgent action, democracy assistance projects form a core activity.
Burnell holds that participation in the democracy assistance industry will continue to grow. However, the industry's progress up until now has in part been contingent on the progress of democratization itself. The slowdown that is currently happening in the advance of freedom and democracy around the world, and the strength shown by leading authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes, must raise questions about the outlook for democracy promotion. If democracy promotion and assistance are to be fit for the future, then the need for a broadly based, appropriately contextualized examination of the policy and the performance is greater now than at any time in the past.
Table of Contents
- 1: Promoting Democracy Abroad: Introduction
- 2: The Domestic Political Impact of Foreign Aid: Recalibrating the Research Agenda
- 3: Democracy Promotion: The Elusive Quest for Grand Strategies
- 4: Political Strategies of External Support for Democratization
- 5: Autocratic Opening to Democracy: Why Legitimacy MattersAutocratic Opening to Democracy: Why Legitimacy Matters
- 6: Does International Democracy Promotion Work?
- 7: From Evaluating Democracy Assistance to Appraising Democracy Promotion
- 8: International Democracy Promotion: A Role for Public Goods Theory?
- 9: Legislative Strengthening Meets Party Support in International Assistance: A Closer Relationship?
- 10: Promoting Democracy Backwards?
- 11: Is There a New Autocracy Promotion?
- 12: Promoting Democracy and Promoting Autocracy:Towards a Comparative Evaluation
- 13: Conclusion: The Future of Democracy Promotion
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