The Democracy Promotion Project

Two faculty members - Steven E. Finkel, Professor and Daniel Wallace Chair in Political Science and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Assistant Professor of Political Science - served as Principal Investigators (along with former Pitt political scientist Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University) on this project designed to answer the question "Does democracy promotion work?" This study analyzed the impact of U.S. Agency for International Development democracy assistance on democracy building world-wide between 1990 and 2003. More information on this project, including downloadable versions of the final report and a Powerpoint presentation, as well as the study data sets (in 2006) can be found at the Democracy Promotion Project website.