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Scholarship seems united in the belief that rule of law and good governance promotion have until now delivered neither improved rule of law nor improved governance. This article contends that the problems critics have identified are principally the product of conceptual and methodological weaknesses of efforts in this area. This article attempts to re-conceptualize law and development in terms of a broader process of democratic development. The author argues that rule of law promotion activities must respect the internal relation between law and democracy in order to bring about the conditions under which legitimate legal orders can emerge.