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HOMO DEMOCRATICUS : OR WHY DEMOCRACY SHOULD NOT BE THE OBJECTIVE OF US FOREIGN POLICY
Author(s) -
Cornell Gorka Katharine
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2007.00784.x
Subject(s) - democracy , democratization , government (linguistics) , civil liberties , foreign policy , political science , economics , political economy , public administration , politics , law , linguistics , philosophy
This article argues that government efforts to support democratisation in other countries are often counterproductive because they further strengthen government institutions over and above a responsible, active, citizenry and often target the wrong recipients because of government aversion to risk. Foreign assistance programmes would do better to support individual liberties rather than democracy.