Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve; Author: Carothers, Thomas; Paperback

Author: Carothers, Thomas
Paperback
300 pages
Published: November 1999
The Brookings Institution
ISBN: 0870031694

Aiding Democracy Abroad is the first independent, comprehensive assessment of this important new field. Drawing on extensive field research and years of hands-on experience, Thomas Carothers examines democracy-aid programs relating to elections, political parties, governmental reform, rule of law, civil society, independent media, labor unions, decentralization, and other elements of what he describes as the democracy template that policymakers and aid officials apply around the world.Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in the 1990s. This text provides an assessment of efforts in this field, examining democracy aid programmes relating to elections, governmental reform, independent media and other elements of the democracy template.