Since the end of the Cold War, two central foreign policy goals have risen to the top of the
agenda of Western governments and development agencies. On the one hand, the …

This brief Background Note seeks to analyse the complex relationship between democracy
and development, a question that has preoccupied academics and policymakers alike for …

The author assesses different views on the relationship between democracy and
development in the context of the new democracies of the developing world and concludes …

Part II of this article applies the definition of 'civil society'and explores the hypotheses about
its political role in the process of democratisation developed in Part I, in the context of two …

While reviewing the various arguments about the influence of democracy on socio‐
economic development in the developing world, the article argues that, since many …

This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the
relationship between regime type and human development. We contend that this empirical …

Democratization has swept the globe over the past generation, and analysts and policy
makers have been struggling to keep up. Bookshelves have been filled with case studies …

Insofar as they are analytically isolable from other social processes, all political systems are
best understood as systems of power in that they generate, legitimise, distribute and seek to …

Can any state become democratic? Can the whole world become democratic? This lecture
argues that the answers to both questions are yes, and that neither culture nor history nor …

This article tries to determine what causes democratization. It begins by studying the cause
of the correlation between development and democracy, and views the models of …