Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist
Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and …

Governance is an easy-to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political
science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub-fields of …

The Global Covenant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in
international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and …

Practically and conceptually, the 'state'is again under siege. Less than two decades after its
'rediscovery'by scholars (Evans et al., 1985; Hall, 1986), the central unit of analysis in …

This study aims to explore the conditions under which the criterion of 'good governance'first
became adopted as a donor policy metaphor and now seems likely to get eclipsed. Why did …

The Making of EU Foreign Policy argues that there has been a common European Union
(EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe-Bulgaria, Czech Republic …

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a
theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major …

This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on
democracy and democratization. The book first examines conceptions of democracy from …

Under what conditions are foreign aid donors willing to suspend foreign aid to punish
political transgressions, such as election fraud, corruption scandals or political repression …

The 1990s have seen the gradual emergence of the promotion of democracy and the
strengthening of good governance as both an objective of and a condition for development …