Final report from a study conducted in 2005, with data in SPSS format.
This study was made possible by a grant from the Association Liaison Office (ALO) to Vanderbilt University, with subcontracts to the University of Virginia and the University of Pittsburgh. The authors’ views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government.
This study attempts to determine the impact of U.S. democracy assistance on democracy building world-wide. Unlike all prior published research, the data set is based upon an exhaustive survey of the entire democracy portfolio of the United States Agency for International Development. Moreover, we cover the entire post Cold War period, beginning in 1990 and continue up through 2003, the most recent year for which data are available. Prior published quantitative research has been based on data sets that were far more limited, either by restricting the analysis to fewer countries, fewer years and, perhaps most importantly, by not cleanly separating democracy assistance from other forms of assistance.