This article investigates the impact of European citizens' socio-economic backgrounds, political orientations and countries of origin on their support for democracy promotion in general and on democracy promotion via military means. Analyzing survey data from 11 European Union (EU) member...

Summary This paper reveals how political institutions within OECD countries affect those countries' foreign policies toward the developing world. For identifying the overall development orientation, the paper uses the Commitment to Development Index, which aggregates different foreign policy...

In an effort to enhance the impact of development aid, recipients are called on to provide democratically sustained 'ownership' for development policies, and donors to align their interventions with these ownership-dictated strategies of their partners. This article illustrates the weaknesses of...