Rita Abrahamsen is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

'Disciplining Democracy brings a fresh, unorthodox, and original new perspective to the topic of democracy and development in Africa?her work should be required reading?' - African Studies Review'Serious, ambitious and well-written, this energetically argued book is likely to be received by the scholarly community as a genuine contribution to a central and highly controversial area of policy debate, the interconnectedness of liberal structural adjustment and democratization.' - Professor Bjorn Beckman'This book's greatest contribution is its ability to challenge the widely held assumption by the Western institutions and agencies over the relations between democracy and development'. - Frank Khachina Matanga, Journal of Third World Studies'This book’s greatest contribution is its ability to challenge the widely held assumption by the Western institutions and agencies over the relations between democracy and development. It successfully does so by providing empirical examples from African countries.' - IndustryWatch-YellowBrix

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Democratisation and Development Discourse2. New World Order, New Development Discourse3. The Seductiveness of Good Governance4. The Democratisation of Poverty5. Whose Democracy?6. Economic Liberalisation and Democratic Erosion7. The Success of the Good Governance Discourse

Rita Abrahamsen is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

'Disciplining Democracy brings a fresh, unorthodox, and original new perspective to the topic of democracy and development in Africa?her work should be required reading?' - African Studies Review'Serious, ambitious and well-written, this energetically argued book is likely to be received by the scholarly community as a genuine contribution to a central and highly controversial area of policy debate, the interconnectedness of liberal structural adjustment and democratization.' - Professor Bjorn Beckman'This book's greatest contribution is its ability to challenge the widely held assumption by the Western institutions and agencies over the relations between democracy and development'. - Frank Khachina Matanga, Journal of Third World Studies'This book’s greatest contribution is its ability to challenge the widely held assumption by the Western institutions and agencies over the relations between democracy and development. It successfully does so by providing empirical examples from African countries.' - IndustryWatch-YellowBrix

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Democratisation and Development Discourse2. New World Order, New Development Discourse3. The Seductiveness of Good Governance4. The Democratisation of Poverty5. Whose Democracy?6. Economic Liberalisation and Democratic Erosion7. The Success of the Good Governance Discourse