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Short Changing the Value of Democracy for Economic Development in Africa

机译：短暂改变民主对非洲经济发展的价值

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Official donor policy towards Africa seems to be informed by the twin requirements of alleviating poverty on the one hand and ensuring respect for human rights and democratization on the other. In practice, when these interests conflict, as they usually do in Africa, donors tend to choose to continue supporting dictatorships, arguing that economic development will eventually lead to democratization. This paper argues that this faulty reasoning is a product of modernization theory that has had undue influence in western policy circles. Based on a broad survey of the literature, the paper shows that there is no theoretical or empirical basis for the claim that authoritarian regimes would provide better economic performance than democracies in general and particularly in Africa. Furthermore, available evidence suggests that the lack of democratization (defined broadly to include the substance of democracy such as government accountability and basic freedoms in addition to meaningful democratic elections) is a key constraint on economic and social development in Africa. Finally, the paper argues that even when the empirical case to establish a definite causal relationship between democratization and development cannot be ascertained, a very strong case can be made for prioritizing democratization for the long term societal transformation of the continent.
机译：捐助国对非洲的官方政策似乎是从一方面减轻贫困，另一方面确保尊重人权和民主化的双重要求中获得的。实际上，当这些利益冲突时，就像在非洲通常发生的那样，捐助者倾向于选择继续支持独裁统治，认为经济发展最终将导致民主化。本文认为，这种错误的推理是现代化理论的产物，对西方政策界产生了不适当的影响。根据对文献的广泛调查，该论文表明，威权主义政权比一般的民主国家，特别是非洲的民主政体，能提供更好的经济表现的说法没有任何理论或经验基础。此外，现有证据表明，缺乏民主化（广泛定义为包括民主的实质，例如政府问责制和基本自由，以及有意义的民主选举），这是对非洲经济和社会发展的主要制约因素。最后，本文认为，即使无法确定在民主化与发展之间建立明确的因果关系的经验案例，也可以为非洲大陆的长期社会转型优先考虑民主化。

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    《Forum for Social Economics》 |2011年第3期|p.313-334|共22页
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    Berhanu Negaa;

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    a Economics Department, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA;

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