ABSTRACT
As with the analysis of primary documents, Chapter 7 adopts a similar approach but this time looks more closely into the practice of democracy assistance. The chapter analyzes strategies, founding documents, annual reports and all other guiding documents of US (federal government-funded) instruments and agencies that are assigned with the task of assisting democratic developments in third countries. We aim to examine how the conceptualizations of democracy in primary documents shape the architecture and focus of democracy assistance instruments. In other words, the chapter seeks to study how the “democratic identity” of the actor permeates into the instruments of democracy assistance.
