Open AccessA Comment on ‘Democracy Promotion at a Local Level : Experiences, Perspectives and Policy of Swiss International Cooperation’ by Martin Dahinden
Author(s) -
Oliviér Roy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international development policy/revue internationale de politique de développement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1663-9383
pISSN - 1663-9375
DOI - 10.4000/poldev.1653
Subject(s) - democratization , democracy promotion , promotion (chess) , context (archaeology) , democracy , political science , public administration , civil society , power (physics) , intervention (counseling) , politics , law , geography , psychology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , psychiatry
The article ‘Democracy Promotion at a Local Level : Experiences, Perspectives and Policy of Swiss International Cooperation’ by Martin Dahinden presents a fine and complex analysis of what could constitute a concrete and efficient democratisation aid policy; it highlights possible limitations of such a policy, the complexity of levels of intervention and the need to implement this policy within the context of a given civil society and local power dynamics.Such democratisation aid clearly aris..