How Foreign Aid Hinders Democracy: A Multivariate Analysis in Development Studies
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Foreign aid has the potential to produce dramatic changes, both economically and politically, in the countries in which it is received. This paper argues that the contemporary foreign aid regime does not always create positive results and is often detrimental to democratization in developing countries. This paper argues that poor foreign aid policy induces, both political and economic, and both direct and indirect effects on lesser developed countries which are unfavorable to democratization. To analyse this assumption, the author uses theory from Jean Grugel, Gordon Crawford and Laurence Whitehead. The democratization and development case studies to demonstrate the negative effects foreign aid can pose to democracy. The author concludes... (More)
- Foreign aid has the potential to produce dramatic changes, both economically and politically, in the countries in which it is received. This paper argues that the contemporary foreign aid regime does not always create positive results and is often detrimental to democratization in developing countries. This paper argues that poor foreign aid policy induces, both political and economic, and both direct and indirect effects on lesser developed countries which are unfavorable to democratization. To analyse this assumption, the author uses theory from Jean Grugel, Gordon Crawford and Laurence Whitehead. The democratization and development case studies to demonstrate the negative effects foreign aid can pose to democracy. The author concludes that the current foreign aid regime must change in order to avoid propping up further corrupt governments. (Less)
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- author
- Wickstrom, David
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Foreign aid, Democracy, Conditionality, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1326057
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-06-19 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Foreign aid has the potential to produce dramatic changes, both economically and politically, in the countries in which it is received. This paper argues that the contemporary foreign aid regime does not always create positive results and is often detrimental to democratization in developing countries. This paper argues that poor foreign aid policy induces, both political and economic, and both direct and indirect effects on lesser developed countries which are unfavorable to democratization. To analyse this assumption, the author uses theory from Jean Grugel, Gordon Crawford and Laurence Whitehead. The democratization and development case studies to demonstrate the negative effects foreign aid can pose to democracy. The author concludes that the current foreign aid regime must change in order to avoid propping up further corrupt governments.}},
author = {{Wickstrom, David}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{How Foreign Aid Hinders Democracy: A Multivariate Analysis in Development Studies}},
year = {{2006}},
}