Promoting Democracy Reinforcing Authoritarianism

Author : Benjamin Schuetze
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493386
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism written by Benjamin Schuetze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan based on a diverse range of original source material.

Author : Peter Burnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317978110
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Politics and National Political Regimes written by Peter Burnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much speculation about whether democracy is still advancing around the world and the influence that leading authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes such as Russia are starting to have on the trends. This collection assesses global trends in democratisation, reviews the condition of international democracy promotion and enquires into whether serious competition in the form of autocracy promotion is now a major possibility. The influence of international politics on national political regimes is explored in more detail for Russia’s resistance to democracy promotion and Russian influence on regimes in Central Asia in particular, along with an Indian perspective on India’s reluctance to push for democracy abroad and concerns that democracy promotion itself should be considered more critically if it undermines democratisation in foreign aid-dependent states. The book concludes by briefly addressing the potential significance of the 2011 ‘Arab spring’ for these themes. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Author : Xuan Qin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813349565
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinforcing Authoritarianism Through Democracy written by Xuan Qin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides empirical evidence to show how democratic experiments are harnessed to achieve control and support authoritarianism, through the lens of participatory pricing, which is one of the most important forms of deliberative democracy in China. The crucial point is an interlacement of easily perceptible improvement in empowerment (voluntary enrollment, disclosure of information and opportunities for expression during events) and hidden control (delicately designed procedures and pre-existing frameworks that influence participants in how they think, and when they talk). The mixture of these two mechanisms assures participants and educates them, producing cooperative citizens desired by the government. This is referred to as the partial empowerment strategy, which challenges the traditional assumption of the correlation between deliberation and empowerment. When authoritarian control influences deliberations in a form that obstructs the natural developmental process of empowerment, it acts as a filter that encourages only some form of empowerment, but precludes those that are too risky for the government. This exertion of dominance through a participatory form reflects the development of governance capability of China as a modern authoritarian state and explains its “surprising” resilience.

Author : Ralph Morris Goldman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Democracy written by Ralph Morris Goldman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the people of more than one hundred nations living under totalitarian or authoritarian rule, the promotion of democratic development and democratic institutions is likely to be a complex and difficult endeavor for many decades to come. In this collection of papers, eight experienced practitioners and scholars report and analyze what they have learned regarding practical complexities and difficulties. The opening chapter sets current United States' endeavors at promoting democracy into historical context, describing the American sense of mission regarding the promotion of democracy. A second chapter indicates how different authoritarian regimes require different democratizing approaches. Next, an analysis is presented to the consequences--intended and otherwise--of political aid for donor-recipient relationships. Recent efforts, particularly under Foreign Assistance Act programs, are reviewed and assessed, with special attention to the failures. Four chapters are devoted to the role of labor unions, business associations, agrarian workers' organizations, and various types of cooperatives have played in democracy promotion. A more theoretical chapter identifies the intimate connections between freedom of economic associations, political democracy, and the development of thriving market economies. The concluding chapters report on efforts to bring together a formal association of democracies; on the advantages of separating out nongovernmental from governmental programs of political aid; and on the empirical problems of program design and evaluation in the democracy promotion field.

Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996656764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U. S. Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion written by Larry Diamond and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommends practical ways in which the United States and Japan can support democratic development in countries that are emerging from autocratic regimes and those that have achieved a measure of democracy, but are in danger of regressing.

Author : Dina Bishara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193575
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Authoritarianism written by Dina Bishara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the conditions which lead workers to leave state-controlled unions and establish independent organizations under authoritarian rule in Egypt.

Author : Jason Brownlee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025710
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Prevention written by Jason Brownlee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy Prevention explains how America's alliance with Egypt has impeded democratic change and reinforced authoritarianism over time.

Author : Tobias Hagmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783606304
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa written by Tobias Hagmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromise between aid agencies and government elites, in which development policies are shaped in the interests of maintaining the status quo. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa sheds light on the political intricacies and moral dilemmas raised by the relationship between foreign aid and autocratic rule in Africa. Through contributions by leading experts exploring the revival of authoritarian development politics in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon, Mozambique and Angola, the book exposes shifting donor interests and rhetoric as well as the impact of foreign aid on military assistance, rural development, electoral processes and domestic politics. In the process, it raises an urgent and too often neglected question: to what extent are foreign aid programmes actually perpetuating authoritarian rule?

Author : Sheila Carapico
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199913
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Aid and Arab Activism written by Sheila Carapico and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the effects of political aid in the Middle East by analyzing discursive and professional practices in four key subfields.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309047978
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but also in Africa. This book is based on workshops held in Benin, Ethiopia, and Namibia to better understand the dynamics of contemporary democratic movements in Africa. Key issues in the democratization process range from its institutional and political requirements to specific problems such as ethnic conflict, corruption, and role of donors in promoting democracy. By focusing on the opinion and views of African intellectuals, academics, writers, and political activists and observers, the book provides a unique perspective regarding the dynamics and problems of democratization in Africa.