Behavioral Foundations of Democracy and Development

Ethan Kapstein ()

No 52, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Since 1974 the world has experienced a “third wave” of democratization. Ensuring that these new democracies consolidate is critical to both global prosperity and peace. Unfortunately, the academic literature that might help policy-makers shape appropriate foreign assistance programs remains underdeveloped, in that it lacks strong behavioral foundations, or explanations of why people act the way they do. This paper argues that the process of democratic consolidation requires a transition from clientelistic to contractual exchange relationships. Without that transition, efforts to promote democratic consolidation are unlikely to succeed.

Keywords: democracy; foreign assistance; economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 F35 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2004-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-dev, nep-pke, nep-pol and nep-soc
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2736

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cgd:wpaper:52

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Center for Global Development Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Publications Manager ().