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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION

    1 Author(s):  DR. DHARAM SINGH

Vol -  6, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 30 - 38  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

The history of the term democracy is as old as the Greek tradition. But, the notion of a pure and perfect democracy has always remained contested. The term ‘democracy’ has no specific contours or a particular definition. It has been contested by numerous theories using different coloured lenses, for instance, the liberal, Marxist and social democratic theories (MacPherson 1966; and Held 1996). These versions of democratic theory are not only varied in their understanding, functioning and normative justification of democracy but also in their approach towards how democracy should be promoted (Kurki 2010). Scholars and practitioners of ‘democracy promotion’ often define it in broad terms including “…any efforts of international actors to encourage or facilitate the growth and consolidation of democratic institutions” (Hawkins 2008: 375; Carothers 1999). This definition is vague because ‘democracy’ itself is an essentially contested concept and the use of the term in ‘democracy’ promotion has hampered the effective prioritization of the activities to be taken under it.

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