IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-13460-1_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Aid, Democracy and Political Conditionality in Sub-Saharan Africa

In: Economic and Political Reform in Developing Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Mark Robinson

Abstract

The late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed far-reaching upheavals in African politics in which the authoritarianism prevailing in many countries came under a concerned challenge from popular movements pressing for greater democracy and accountability. Analysts have sought to account for these developments by examining the role of economic factors, the demonstration effect of the transitions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the domestic political circumstances of individual countries. Increasing attention is also being given to the pressure exerted by foreign aid donors through political conditionality, whereby the provision of development assistance is made conditional on political and administrative reforms, and its contribution to the democratisation process in recipient countries. The expectation of the aid donors is that democracy will bring with it better prospects of sustained economic growth by increasing regime accountability and liberalising the policy making environment (Healey et al., 1993).

Suggested Citation

  • Mark Robinson, 1995. "Aid, Democracy and Political Conditionality in Sub-Saharan Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Oliver Morrissey & Frances Stewart (ed.), Economic and Political Reform in Developing Countries, chapter 4, pages 81-96, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13460-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13460-1_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13460-1_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.