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

by Gordon Crawford

Book Overview

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was 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 'recipient' countries by four donors, the governments of Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349424242
• ISBN13: 9781349424245
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"