What Determines the Targets of Democracy Assistance? Analyses based on Constructivism and Historical Institutionalism

本研究项目分析了不同发达民主国家(下称捐助者)提供的民主援助内容不同的原因。从本项目中得出的结论如下。首先，每个捐助者在支持国外民主治理方面强调了不同的方面，不同类型的行为者在这方面发挥了中心作用。它导致不同的捐赠者支持不同类型的行为者。第二，捐助者旨在支持民主政体的目的是出于政治目的(促进民主化本身)还是为了发展援助，导致民主支持的内容不同。尽管这些结果没有明显偏离最初的假设，但捐赠者在这两个方面的差异比预期的要微妙得多。此外，上述两个方面也相互影响。

This research project analyzed the causes for the variation in the contents of democracy assistance provided by different developed democracies (hereafter donors). Conclusions drawn from this project were as follows. First, each donor emphasized different aspects in supporting democratic governance abroad, in which different kinds of actors possessed central roles. It caused different donors to support different kinds of actors. Second, whether a donor aimed to support democracies for political purpose (promotion of democratization per se) or for the sake of development assistance caused the difference in the contents of democracy support. Although these results were not significantly deviated from the initial hypotheses, the difference among donors in these two aspects was much more subtle than expected. In addition, the above two aspects affected each other as well.