Democracy Advantage

Morton Halperin is one of America's most respected foreign policy analysts and served in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations. He taught at Harvard and is currently the Senior Vice President of the Center for American Progress.Joseph T. Siegle has done extensive research pn developing countries and is the Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.Michael Weinstein is Director of Programs for the Robin Hood Foundation and publishes frequently on the editorial pages of The New York Times.

"This valuable and timely volume obliterates the myth--beloved of dictators--that democracy is somehow the enemy of development rather than an essential ally. Here is a treasury of evidence that freedom is not only right--it works." -- Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State"Meticulously researched, this book makes the overdue case that democracy helps not hinders poverty reduction. It takes a well-aimed blow at the canard that poor countries need the smack of authoritarian government if they are to have the discipline to grow." -- Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

• Prologue 1. Exposing a 50-Year-Old Myth 2. Democracy and Development: Setting the record right 3. Sustaining New Democracies 4. Democracy and Security 5. Making Development Safe for Democracy 6. Democracy as the Default Option 7. Bringing Democracy Into the Center of a Comprehensive Development Strategy 8. The Great Race Appendices Endnotes Bibliography About the Authors