Subject(s): Democracy in Developing countries -- Developing countries in Politics and government -- Democratisation and development discourse -- Fictitious dichotomies -- Power, knowledge and the invention of development -- New development discourse -- Cold war -- Hegemony and good governance -- Alien state intervention, indigenous democratic capitalism -- Liberating civil society -- Empowerment through cost recovery -- Good governance as modernisation theory -- Democratisation and poverty -- Economic roots of democratic demands -- Economic liberalisation and democratic erosion -- Irreconcilable constituencies -- Exclusionary democracy