eprintid: 23707
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2017-11-10 13:37:09
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type: workingPaper
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creators_name: Ziaja, Sebastian
title: More donors, more democracy
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
abstract: A country's democracy improves when it receives democracy aid from a larger number of donor countries.This finding appears surprising from a development perspective, as the presence of a large number of donors, and more generally 'fragmented aid', have been shown to impact negatively on the recipient country. But fragmented aid can be beneficial: Diversity on the donor side provides choice to the local actors involved in the process of democratization. It thus creates a 'marketplace of ideas' which increases the viability of the resulting institutions. In contraast, a highly-concentrated donor community can lead to the imposition of an institutional blueprint, designed in advance and not adapted to the needs of the recipient society. An instrumental variable analysis with panel data for 133 countries from 1994 to 2013, explicit tests of the causal mechanism, and anecdotal evidence from Ghana provide strong support for the benefits of diverse democracy aid.
date: 2017-11-10
publisher: University of Heidelberg
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00023707
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0640
ppn_swb: 1657049140
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-237076
language: eng
bibsort: ZIAJASEBASMOREDONORS20171110
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0640
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Ziaja, Sebastian  (2017) More donors, more democracy.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23707/1/__ad.uni-heidelberg.de_wiso_u.arnold_Desktop_Ziaja_2017_dp640.pdf