Thomas Carothers
Carothers, Thomas, Revitalizing Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID
Carothers, Thomas, The backlash against democracy promotion
85 2 (March/April)Carothers has written widely on US democratic assistance - see for example Thomas Carothers, Revitalizing Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID, Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment, 2009 , pp. 66 - and tends to the view that such aid is positive but necessarily limited in its effects.