Sarah Sunn Bush

The Taming of Democracy Assistance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most government programs seeking to aid democracy abroad do not directly confront dictators. This book explains how organizational politics 'tamed' democracy assistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069640
• ISBN-10: 1107069645
• Artikelnr.: 41646000

Autorenporträt

Sarah Sunn Bush is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Her research focuses on democracy promotion, non-state actors in world politics, and gender and human rights policy, and has been published in several journals, including International Organization and International Studies Quarterly. Dr Bush was the 2014 winner of the Deborah Gerner Grant for Professional Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Argument: 1. Introduction
2. The argument: structure, agency, and democracy promotion
3. Tame democracy assistance: what it is and why it matters
Part II. Testing the Argument: 4. Delegation and the allocation of democracy assistance
5. Changes in American grant-making
6. Creating the democracy establishment
7. Jordan: aid in the shadow of geopolitics
8. Tunisia: reform after revolution
Part III. Conclusions: 9. Should democracy promoters be set free?
Part IV. Appendices and References: A. Descriptions of categories of democracy assistance
B. List of interviewee affiliations
C. Major organizations in the democracy establishment
D. Data appendix.