Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countri

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economi

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of

This Handbook provides readers with an expert overview of the key theoretical approaches to governance and development, covering a broad range of policy areas a

Though the fall of the Soviet Union opened the way for states in central and eastern Europe to join the world of market-oriented Western democracies, the expect