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Policy Experiments, Democratic Ownership and Development Assistance

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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 such an approach. From a political-economy perspective, severe tensions exist between concepts of democratic ownership, on the one hand, and the experimental and iterative organisation of a society's encompassing interests in democratic settings, on the other. These tensions are even more pronounced in emerging democracies, making democratic ownership as a prerequisite for aid effectiveness an illusion, and provoking the re-emergence of traditional donor-recipient problems.

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Development Policy Review

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Hoboken, United States : Wiley-Blackwell., 2010

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English

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09506764

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Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2010, pages 515–534

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Aid effectiveness
Ownership
Democratic governance
Policy experiments

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