Development Aid Confronts Politics: The Almost Revolution - Softcover

Thomas Carothers; Diane De Gramont

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870034006 ISBN 13: 9780870034008

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2013

Synopsis

After decades of denial, the development community now acknowledges that effective assistance requires grappling with the domestic politics of recipient countries. Development agencies are openly promoting political goals alongside traditional socioeconomic ones and trying to apply politically smart methods. Yet considerable controversy and confusion accompany this potential revolution in development aid. In The Almost Revolution, Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont ask whether aid can achieve a productive synthesis of political and socioeconomic concerns. Their thought-provoking study illuminates the multiple meanings of "working politically" in development assistance.

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About the Author

Thomas Carothers is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the founder and director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, which analyzes the state of democracy in the world and efforts by the United States and other countries to promote democracy. Carothers is the author or editor of eight critically acclaimed books on democracy promotion. Diane de Gramont, a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University, was previously a junior fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research specialties include international support for democracy and governance, political party development, and comparative democratization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870034006
• ISBN 13: 9780870034008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300