Watering, not Transplanting: The Case for Democracy Assistance”
Democracy Promotion and Countering Violent Extremism
Published by APSA-Comparative Politics Newsletter.
Abstract:
Can institutions be transplanted? At the purely formal level, the question seems trivial: institutions have traveled– via diffusion or imposition across polities for centuries. The key question, however, lies at a deeper level: do the behavioral effects of formal rules travel equally well across political systems?