Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Accountability is not a passing fad in the development lexicon but rather the driving idea in twenty-first century development work.
While the global state of democracy appears worse off than in recent years, there have emerged numerous positive cases of democratic consolidation that are underappreciated.
A series of essays by leading scholars and activists on the future of the movement for transparency and accountability in governance.
Deficiencies of democratic governance in the United States raise questions about its efforts to promote democracy abroad. U.S. democracy aid organizations should begin working to strengthen democracy at home.
An examination of the ways Western public and private funders are responding to the increasing restrictions on support for civil society around the world.
The spike in global protests is becoming a major trend in international politics, but care is needed in ascertaining the precise nature and impact of the phenomenon.
The development community faces a struggle between the push to make country ownership a fundamental tenet of foreign aid, and movement toward viewing societies as the true partners of such assistance.
New technologies offer powerful tools for empowerment, yet democracy around the world is stagnating.
Western democratic powers are no longer the dominant external shapers of political transitions around the world.
Democracy aid has arrived not at a crisis, but at a crossroads, defined by two very different possible paths forward.
