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Promoting Democracy in Postcommunist Ukraine: The Contradictory Outcomes of US Aid to Women’s NGOs

Kateryna Pishchikova
Promoting Democracy in Postcommunist Ukraine: The Contradictory Outcomes of US Aid to Women’s NGOs
ISBN: 978-1-935049-25-8
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ISBN: 978-1-935049-82-1
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2010/237 pages/LC: 2010030485

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Evaluating Democracy Assistance by Krishna Kumar and Transacting Transition: The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the Former Yugoslavia by Keith Brown

"An interesting and unique book that engages both theoretical debates and important policy issues including democracy promotion, civil society, and women’s politics."—Patrice McMahon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln  

DESCRIPTION

Considerable material and human resources are devoted to building democratic institutions around the world. Why, then, do assistance programs fail to meet their proclaimed goals? And why aren't these programs changed or abandoned when they fail? Using US assistance to women's NGOs in postcommunist Ukraine as a case study, Kateryna Pishchikova shows why democracy promotion programs have a limited or even negative impact on democracy in recipient countries. Combining analysis of policy documents with in-depth interviews and observations, she explains the persistence of aid despite the disillusionment of its beneficiaries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kateryna Pishchikova is research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.
 

CONTENTS

  • Introduction.
  • Changing Perceptions of Civil Society and Gender.
  • Civil Society and Democratization Assistance.
  • The History of Women's NGO Activism in Ukraine.
  • The Origins of Assistance in Washington, DC.
  • Assistance Implementation in Kiev.
  • Local Women's NGOs as Aid Recipients.
  • Civil Society Discourse and Its Impact.
  • Appendixes.