Publication

Jan 2011

The problem with democracy promotion lies not in its unbending and overly zealous imposition of liberal norms. Rather, its most serious pathology is governments’ failure to defend core liberal norms in a way that would allow local variations in and choices over democratic reform - along with genuine civic empowerment and emancipation - to flourish. Current criticisms of the democracy agenda risk pushing policy deliberations in exactly the opposite direction to their required improvement.

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Author Richard Youngs
Series FRIDE Working Papers
Issue 106
Publisher FRIDE
Copyright © 2011 FRIDE
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