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Promoting Democracy Opportunities and Issues
Edited by Ralph M. Goldman and William A. Douglas. Democracy in the World Series of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
ISBN: 0-275-92814-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92814-8
300 pages, index
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/25/1988
List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Series Title: Democracy in the World
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  • Promoting Democracy offers a compendium of the practical wisdom of nine experienced practitioners of the art of democratic institution-building. Its guidelines for program strategies, analyses of ethical issues, and practical "do's and don'ts" make it must reading for anyone involved in the policy oversight, academic analysis, or daily project implementation of efforts to strengthen democracy world-wide.
    —The Honorable Dante Fascell,
    Chairman of the Committee
    on Foreign Affairs,
    U.S. House of Representatives
Description: With the people of more than one hundred nations living under totalitarian or authoritarian rule, the promotion of democratic development and democratic institutions is likely to be a complex and difficult endeavor for many decades to come. In this collection of papers, eight experienced practitioners and scholars report and analyze what they have learned regarding practical complexities and difficulties. The opening chapter sets current United States' endeavors at promoting democracy into historical context, describing the American sense of mission regarding the promotion of democracy. A second chapter indicates how different authoritarian regimes require different democratizing approaches. Next, an analysis is presented to the consequences--intended and otherwise--of political aid for donor-recipient relationships. Recent efforts, particularly under Foreign Assistance Act programs, are reviewed and assessed, with special attention to the failures. Four chapters are devoted to the role of labor unions, business associations, agrarian workers' organizations, and various types of cooperatives have played in democracy promotion. A more theoretical chapter identifies the intimate connections between freedom of economic associations, political democracy, and the development of thriving market economies. The concluding chapters report on efforts to bring together a formal association of democracies; on the advantages of separating out nongovernmental from governmental programs of political aid; and on the empirical problems of program design and evaluation in the democracy promotion field.
Table of Contents:
  • A Note on The Series
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Democratic Mission: A Brief History
  • Aspects of an U.S. Campaign for Democracy
  • The Donor-Recipient Relationship in Political Aid Programs
  • Promoting Democracy in Authoritarian Regimes: Problems and Prospects
  • Transnational Parties as Multilateral Civic Educators
  • Labor's Role in Building Democracy
  • A Market Oriented Approach to Democratic Development: The Linkages
  • A Market-Oriented Approach to Democratic Development: Past and Future Programs
  • Peasant Organizations in Democratic Development
  • Cooperatives as Agents of Democracy
  • Organizing the Democracies to Promote Democracy
  • Democracy Promotion and Government-to-Governemtn Diplomacy
  • Assessing Political Aid for the Endless Campaign
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 87-21482
LCC Class: JC421
Dewey Class: 321.8
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