This article argues that a new generation of Political Conditionalities has emerged during
the last decade. This requires an expansion of the original definition and research agenda …

Does foreign aid prop up authoritarian regimes or is it conducive to democratic reforms? We
use a two-level perspective that takes the domestic incentives of both the recipient and the …

This article focuses on methodological challenges in evaluating complex program aid
interventions like budget support. We show that recent innovations in process-tracing …

Summary Although Budget Support (BS) was not designed to push political reform in
recipient countries, donors have nonetheless used it to sanction democratic regress. An …

In 2013, Zambia's then Minister of Finance announced that there would be a 700 per cent
increase in the budget for what was then a pilot social cash transfer programme. The move …

Most actors in the field of foreign aid agree with the call for coordinated engagement in
fragile states in order to more effectively counter the consequences and origins of state …

The rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia over the past few years seems in some
ways to fit with mainstream accounts of how welfare states are likely to emerge in …

Empirical research on democratization is dominated by case studies and small-N
comparisons. This article is a first attempt to take stock of qualitative case-based research on …

Statebuilding has become a major concern of OECD donor countries in recent years.
However, our conceptual and empirical knowledge is still rather limited as to which …

Dominant party systems trigger controversy about how the EU should engage with them.
The examples of Ethiopia and Rwanda show that the willingness of authoritarian …