Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Dyrnes, Inger
Author-Email: inger.dyrnes@iass-potsdam.de
Author-Workplace-Name: IASS, Potsdam
Title: Perspectives on human development theory in democracy promotion: A comparison of
	 democracy promotion programmes in Egypt through the lenses of classical and
	 revised modernisation theory 
Abstract: This paper argues that the concept of socio-economic development needs
	 to be redefined for the purpose of effective democracy promotion. By
	 including aspects from human development theory, advocates of revised
	 modernisation theory state that mass values in a society shift towards a
	 preferance for democracy as higher levels socio-economic development
	 provide existential security. This implies that a democratic culture
	 shapes its institutions and not the other way around. If donor countries
	 are willing to make long-term investments in human resources rather than
	 focus on short-term improvements of state institutions, effective
	 democracy may stand a better chance of developing.
Classification-JEL: O15, F59
Keywords: democratisation, human development theory, socio-economic development,
	 foreign development aid, USAID, Egypt, Middle East, foreign policy, international
	 relations, governance, civil society, institutional development, economic policy,
	 judicial reform
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 2012-045
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2012/wp2012-045.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2012045