ABSTRACT
This chapter considers that how the policy of democracy assistance was actually implemented in practice, before examining the assistance programmes provided by the key agencies. An implementation framework analysis is then utilised to discover the impact of bureaucracy on policy delivery. The policy of US democracy promotion in Russia was carried out by up to 23 departments and independent agencies. The principal actors consisted of five government agencies: United States Agency for International Development, United States Information Agency, Department of State, Department of Defence and the Department of Justice. The quasi-governmental organizations' democracy assistance role is almost entirely funded by government but allows greater flexibility for those organizations compared to government departments. The funds available for democracy promotion were small in comparison with the scale of the task of assisting in the reform of Russia's political processes and civil society. The Eurasia Foundation was designed to complement National Endowment for Democracy's assistance work.
