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The taming of democracy assistance : why democracy promotion does not confront dictators / Sarah Sunn Bush.
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Bush, Sarah Sunn, 1982-
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English
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JC423 .B885 2015
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Democratization
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International cooperation
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Democracy
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United States
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Foreign relations
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21st century
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Summary note
Few government programs that aid democracy abroad today seek to foster regime change. Technical programs that do not confront dictators are more common than the aid to dissidents and political parties that once dominated the field. What explains this 'taming' of democracy assistance? This book offers the first analysis of that puzzle. In contrast to previous research on democracy aid, it focuses on the survival instincts of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that design and implement democracy assistance. To survive, Sarah Bush argues that NGOs seek out tamer types of aid, especially as they become more professional. Diverse evidence - including three decades of new project-level data, case studies of democracy assistance in Jordan and Tunisia, and primary documents gathered from NGO archives - supports the argument. This book provides new understanding of foreign influence and moral actors in world politics, with policy implications for democracy in the Middle East.-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents
I. Introduction and Argument
1. Introduction
2. The argument: structure, agency, and democracy promotion
3. Tame democracy assistance: what it is and why it matters
II. Testing the Argument
4. Delegation and the allocation of democracy assistance
5. Changes in American grant-making
6. Creating the democracy establishment
7. Jordan: aid in the shadow of geopolitics
8. Tunisia: reform after revolution
III. Conclusions
9. Should democracy promoters be set free?
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ISBN
9781107069640 ((hardback))
1107069645 ((hardback))
9781107642201 ((paperback))
1107642205 ((paperback))
LCCN
2014036376
OCLC
893857869
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