Foreign Aid and Political Reform A Comparative Analysis of Democracy Assistance and Political Conditionality

by Crawford, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780333919828
• ISBN10: 0333919823
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governancewas a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern "donor" governments. Uniquely, this book provides a systematic and comparative investigation of policies and practices in the 1990s to promote political reform in Southern '"ecipient'"countries by four donors, the governments of Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the European Union.The use of both carrot and stick ( that is democracy assistance and aid sanctions) is examined andsharp criticism of current practice offered.

Author Biography

Gordon Crawford is Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I The Emergence of the New Policy Agenda	9	(78)
Themes and Issues in the `New Policy Agenda'	11	(42)
Policy origins	11	(4)
Policy coherence	15	(15)
Policy legitimacy	30	(14)
Policy implementation and impact	44	(7)
Some concluding (and preceding) remarks	51	(2)
Policy Evolution	53	(13)
Donor policy shifts	53	(11)
Explaining donor policy trends	64	(2)
Policy Operationalisation	66	(21)
Defining concepts	66	(9)
Developing strategies	75	(12)
Part II Political Aid	87	(74)
Implementing Political Aid Programmes	89	(7)
Financial instruments and institutional structures	89	(5)
Total expenditure	94	(2)
Political Aid: a Comparative Analysis	96	(54)
Methodology	96	(5)
Purpose of political aid	101	(3)
Geographical distribution	104	(20)
Implementers	124	(13)
Beneficiaries	137	(13)
Evaluation	150	(11)
Aid contribution to democratic development	150	(6)
Political aid findings	156	(5)
Part III Aid Sanctions	161	(68)
Sanctions Imposed	163	(19)
Institutional procedures and actors	163	(6)
Implementation of sanctions	169	(8)
Comparative analysis	177	(5)
Effectiveness	182	(27)
Lessons from economic conditionality	183	(2)
Methodology	185	(2)
Key findings	187	(13)
Stokke's propositions - confirmed or refuted?	200	(9)
Consistency	209	(20)
Regional breakdown	209	(2)
Level of sanctions	211	(3)
The non-cases	214	(11)
Summary of findings: inconsistency and legitimacy	225	(4)
Part IV Conclusion	229	(19)
Conclusion	231	(17)
Political aid programmes	231	(9)
Aid sanctions	240	(5)
Democracy promotion and neo-liberal hegemony	245	(3)
Appendix: Database Categorisation Codes	248	(6)
Notes	254	(15)
Bibliography	269	(15)
Index	284