Transatlantic Democracy Assistance: Promoting Different Models of Democracy

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
1 Introduction
	A common goal (?)
	The essential contestability of democracy
	Contextualizing democracy promotion
	Ethics, identity and democracy promotion
	Book structure
	Notes
2 Typology of approaches to democracy assistance
	Political versus developmental
	Top-down versus bottom-up
	Substantive versus procedural
	The typology in perspective
	Notes
3 Narratives and self-images for the world stage
	America’s clear sense of mission
	The EU’s technocratic origins and the search for an international role
	Notes
4 Democratic identity: what is the proper role of the government?
	The liberal tradition in America
	Democracy through the prism of a limited state
	The social tradition in Europe
	Democracy through the prism of a welfare state
	The search for legitimacy to govern
	Notes
5 The American model of democracy for export
	The Reagan administration’s promotion of “limited” democracy
	Promoting “market democracies”
	The ADVANCE Democracy Act and the meanings of democracy
	The QDDR – more substantive conceptualizations of democracy?
	Notes
6 The EU model of democracy for export
	Following the US example, but altering substance
	“Governance” and EU development support
	Institutionalizing democracy assistance into EU primary law
	The push for a “European consensus” on the definition of democracy
	“Arab Spring” and the concept of “deep democracy”
	The post-Arab Spring “Strategic Framework”
	Notes
7 The architecture and focus of US democracy assistance instruments
	The NED family’s support for bottom-up democratization
	USAID’s political aid programs
	Democracy assistance programs of the executive branch
	US democratic identity and instruments in perspective
	Notes
8 The architecture and focus of EU democracy assistance instruments
	The first post-Cold War democracy assistance instruments
	The second half of the 1990s and contemporary instruments
	EU democratic identity and instruments in perspective
	Notes
9 Conclusion
	Notes
10 Postscript: enter Donald Trump
	What has been said
	Budgets, programs and language
	Outlooks and implications
	Notes
Bibliography
	Primary documents
	News articles
	Monographs
	Journal articles
	Discussion, policy and conference papers
	Reports
Index