Importing Democracy From Abroad

Author : Marius I. Tătar
Publisher : Marius Ioan Tatar
ISBN 13 : 973759116X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Importing Democracy from Abroad written by Marius I. Tătar and published by Marius Ioan Tatar. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study assesses the relation between foreign aid and the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy in Romania. Drawing on questionnaire data as well as internal documents the study specifically looks at the impact of international assistance on the participation of advocacy groups in the governmental policymaking process. On the one hand, it is shown that international assistance enhances the capacity of NGOs to mobilize advocacy coalitions and this in turn increases the effectiveness of their participation in influencing policymaking. But on the other hand, democracy assistance programs have a rather paradoxical effect by impeding NGOs' civic engagement with their domestic constituencies. Hence, international assistance has a mixed impact on the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy: it fosters advocacy groups' "link-up" to the governmental decision-makers while in the same time it hinders their "link-down" to ordinary people

Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781442201118
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advancing Democracy Abroad written by Michael McFaul and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advancing Democracy Abroad, McFaul explains how democracy provides a more accountable system of government, greater economic prosperity, and better security compared with other systems of government. He then shows how Americans have benefited from the advance of democracy abroad in the past, and speculates about security, economic, and moral benefits for the United States from potential democratic gains around the world.

Author : Marius Ioan Tatar
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Importing Democracy from Abroad written by Marius Ioan Tatar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the relation between foreign aid and the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy in Romania. Drawing on questionnaire data as well as internal documents the study specifically looks at the impact of international assistance on the participation of advocacy groups in the governmental policymaking process. On the one hand, it is shown that international assistance enhances the capacity of NGOs to mobilize advocacy coalitions and this in turn increases the effectiveness of their participation in influencing policymaking. But on the other hand, democracy assistance programs have a rather paradoxical effect by impeding NGOs' civic engagement with their domestic constituencies. Hence, international assistance has a mixed impact on the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy: it fosters advocacy groups' “link-up” to the governmental decision-makers while in the same time it hinders their “link-down” to ordinary people.

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
ISBN 13 : 0870033417
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aiding Democracy Abroad written by Thomas Carothers and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in recent years. Not only the United States but many other Western countries, international institutions, and private foundations today use aid to support democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Though extensive in scope, these activities remain little understood outside the realm of specialists. Debates among policymakers over democracy promotion oscillate between unhelpful poles of extreme skepticism and unrealistic boosterism, while the vast majority of citizens in aid-providing countries have little awareness of the democracy-building efforts their governments sponsor. 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. Steering a careful path between the inflated claims of aid advocates and the exaggerated criticisms of their opponents, Carothers takes a hard look at what such programs achieve and how they can be improved.

Author : Peter Burnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138513709
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Democracy Abroad written by Peter Burnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Currency Values -- 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 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 -- A Select and Recent Bibliography -- Index

Author : Raymond A. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313363382
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Importing Democracy written by Raymond A. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions, a tour of the world's political systems, and a manifesto for reform, offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government. The United States has always taken pride in being a model of democracy. However, presidential systems are more closely associated with dictatorship and single-party rule in other parts of the world like Latin America and Africa. Indeed, democratic practices more often flourish in parliamentary systems, and the United States remains the only advanced, industrialized democracy with a presidential system instead of a parliamentary organization. Each of the 21 chapters in Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government highlights a feature of a foreign nation's political system that is absent in the U.S. system. Chapters also draw on brief case studies from countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, Iceland, India, Germany and South Africa. Importing Democracy explores whether American politics and government might be enhanced by incorporating a multiparty system, a simplified Constitutional amendment process, parliamentary practices of accountability, proportional representation elections, presidential votes of "no confidence," restraints on judicial power, and much more.

Author : William Blum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992208530
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Deadliest Export Democracy written by William Blum and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dummy author
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Importing Democracy written by Dummy author and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions, a tour of the world's political systems, and a manifesto for reform, offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government. The United States has always taken pride in being a model of democracy. However, presidential systems are more closely associated with dictatorship and single-party rule in other parts of the world like Latin America and Africa. Indeed, democratic practices more often flourish in parliamentary systems, and the United States remains the only advanced, industrialized democracy with a presidential system instead of a parliamentary organization. Each of the 21 chapters in Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government highlights a feature of a foreign nation's political system that is absent in the U.S. system. Chapters also draw on brief case studies from countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, Iceland, India, Germany and South Africa. Importing Democracy explores whether American politics and government might be enhanced by incorporating a multiparty system, a simplified Constitutional amendment process, parliamentary practices of accountability, proportional representation elections, presidential votes of "no confidence," restraints on judicial power, and much more.

Author : Peter J. Burnell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Democracy Abroad written by Peter J. Burnell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Udi Greenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173826
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weimar Century written by Udi Greenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ideas, individuals, and political traditions from Weimar Germany molded the global postwar order The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post–World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations of Germany’s reconstruction lay in the country’s first democratic experiment, the Weimar Republic (1918–33). He traces the paths of five crucial German émigrés who participated in Weimar’s intense political debates, spent the Nazi era in the United States, and then rebuilt Europe after a devastating war. Examining the unexpected stories of these diverse individuals—Protestant political thinker Carl J. Friedrich, Socialist theorist Ernst Fraenkel, Catholic publicist Waldemar Gurian, liberal lawyer Karl Loewenstein, and international relations theorist Hans Morgenthau—Greenberg uncovers the intellectual and political forces that forged Germany’s democracy after dictatorship, war, and occupation. In restructuring German thought and politics, these émigrés also shaped the currents of the early Cold War. Having borne witness to Weimar’s political clashes and violent upheavals, they called on democratic regimes to permanently mobilize their citizens and resources in global struggle against their Communist enemies. In the process, they gained entry to the highest levels of American power, serving as top-level advisors to American occupation authorities in Germany and Korea, consultants for the State Department in Latin America, and leaders in universities and philanthropic foundations across Europe and the United States. Their ideas became integral to American global hegemony. From interwar Germany to the dawn of the American century, The Weimar Century sheds light on the crucial ideas, individuals, and politics that made the trans-Atlantic postwar order.