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

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

This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period. Employing theoretical

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 volume provides a comparative study of the illicit electoral strategies used by candidates in contemporary elections in Romania and Hungary.