ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses more particularly on the recommendation in reports and inquiries into support for legislative strengthening for closer cooperation with assistance to party strengthening. It sets out arguments in favor of the recommendation, and raises counter-arguments. The chapter suggests that expectations should be moderate. It argues that different ways of approaching legislative strengthening may gain more traction. International democracy assistance conventionally refers to consensual and grant aided support for activities designed to help countries move in the direction of establishing and consolidating western style liberal democracy. The prospects of recommendations for aligning legislative strengthening and party support more closely should not be assessed in isolation from other recommendations currently voiced in the literature. One of the most notable is the promotion of public policy issues around which parliamentarians can be mobilized on a non-partisan basis, within the context of lending support to parliamentary processes.
