Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention URL: http://www.isanet.org
Citation: URL: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178778_index.html Direct Link: HTML Code:

Jolliff, Brandy. and Scott, James. "Democratic Assistance and Democratic Practice: The Impact of U.S. Democracy Support on Human Rights in the Developing World, 1988-2003" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178778_index.html>

Jolliff, B. J. and Scott, J. M. , 2007-02-28 "Democratic Assistance and Democratic Practice: The Impact of U.S. Democracy Support on Human Rights in the Developing World, 1988-2003" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178778_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the provision of democracy assistance has become increasingly common for a variety of players in world politics, including those ?democratic sponsor states? who have embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy strategy. One argument in favor of such efforts is that democracies are the best guarantors of human rights. Previous studies have examined the link between democracy and human rights protection, often suggesting that better human rights performance is a democratic practice. Other studies on foreign aid have suggested a variety of mechanisms through which such aid might contribute to progress on democratization and human rights, including conditionality, empowerment, and capacity-building arguments. This paper builds on these and other strands of the literatures and examines the provision of specific democracy assistance by the U.S to determine whether such aid contributes to progress on human rights practice in the developing world. To conduct our study, we collect data on U.S. foreign aid, and especially democracy assistance, from 1988-2002, along with evidence on democratization, human rights practices, and a variety of domestic and international political, social, and economic characteristics of recipient countries to examine the link between democracy aid and human rights performance. We test the impact of democracy assistance on human rights practices through several quantitative methods, ranging from simple bivariate descriptive approaches to more complex models. We also extract several short case studies to highlight the mechanisms through which such assistance and other factors impact human rights practices. Our results shed light on the role of ?democratic sponsor states? in promoting progress on human rights, and provide implications for the aid strategies and practices employed by the U.S.

Steel Rain Makes No Garden Grow: The Impact of Cluster Bombs on Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, and Socioeconomic Development Organizations

Assisting Democrats or Resisting Dictators? The Nature and Impact of Democracy Support through the US Agency for International Development and the National Endowment for Democracy, 1990-2001