ABSTRACT
The last chapter provided a largely empirical account of the role and influence of outsiders, insiders and official policy makers in shaping France's and Britain's political aid programmes. This chapter seeks to take this analysis further by providing a theoretical framework which can illustrate and explain the dynamic processes by which this development strategy was adopted and implemented. Such a framework should plug gaps left by our earlier survey and should, for example, show how different actors have interacted and how they have maintained or changed their stance on political conditionality.
