Foreign Aid and Democratization: Benin and Niger Compared

From: African Studies Review | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Gazibo, Mamoudou | Copyright information

Abstract:

This article compares the democratization process in Benin and Niger in the decade from 1989 to 1999 and emphasises the influence of external donors with regard to their economic support of democratization. The task is twofold. First, I try to understand why, though these two aid-dependent countries share many initial similarities, the former received more external financial assistance than the latter. I build upon New Institutionalist concepts such as timing, sequence, and p...

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