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

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

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

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

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Eu