TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abrahamsen,Rita
TI  - Disciplining democracy: development discourse and good governance in Africa 
SN  - 1856498581 (cased)
U1  - 338.96 22
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - London ; , New York, N.Y.
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Africa
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - MASPPSS
KW  - October2019
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden to external creditors and donors. Demands by impoverished electorates that their new democratic institutions actually work to defend their interests are often branded as illegitimate by the West
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol058/00043430.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol051/00043430.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol051/00043430.html
ER  -