Aiding Democracy Abroad The Learning Curve

Name: Aiding Democracy Abroad The Learning Curve
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ISBN: 9780870031694

ISBN-10: 0870031694

ISBN-13: 9780870031694

Edition: 1999

Authors: Thomas Carothers

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Setting the Stage



A New Field


Tools of the Trade


Lack of Learning


Taking Stock


Case Studies and Other Sources


Avoiding Rosy Assumptions



The Rise of Democracy Assistance


The First Wave: The 1960s and 1970s


A New Wave: The 1980s


A Core Priority: The 1990s


Repeating the Past?



Interlude for Skeptics



Introducing Four Cases


Far from Democracy


Transition Fever


The Challenges of Consolidation


The Transitions Compared



The Core Elements



The Question of Strategy


The Core Strategy


Assessing the Core Strategy


Improving the Core Strategy


A Note on Preconditions and a Look at the Cases



Basic Steps: Elections and Political Parties


Electoral Aid


Political Party Assistance



From the Top Down: State Institutions


Constitutions


Judicial Reform and the Rule of Law


Legislative Assistance


Local Government Assistance


Civil-Military Relations


Challenges of Aiding the State



From the Bottom Up: Civil Society


The "Discovery" of Civil Society


Advocacy NGOs


Civic Education


Media Assistance


Labor Unions


Beyond Civil Society Romanticism



On the Ground



Making It Work: The Challenges of Implementation


The External Project Method


Corrective Steps


The Institutions of Democracy Assistance



Giving Out Grades: Evaluation


The Difficulties of Evaluation


The False Dream of Science


The Start of an Alternative



Understanding Effects


Modest Results


Considering the Cases



Conclusion



The Learning Curve


Movement Along the Curve


Doing Better


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author


About the Carnegie Endowment