Intro -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1-Introduction -- Notes -- 2-Changing Perceptions of Civil Society and Gender -- Civil Society: Contextualizing the Rediscovery -- The Meanings of Gender -- Notes -- 3-Civil Society and Democratization Assistance -- Making Democracy Happen: How and Why to Assist -- Making Democracy Work: Civil Society and NGO-ization -- Notes -- 4-The History of Women's NGO Activism in Ukraine -- Women's Activism in Ukraine -- The Rise and Development of NGOs in Ukraine -- Table 4.1: Quantitative Dynamics of NGO Development in Ukraine -- Notes -- 5-The Origins of Assistance in Washington, DC -- The Discourse and Practice of the Post-Cold War Assistance -- Democracy Through Civil Society Promotion -- Gender and Women's Issues: How Are They Defined? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6-Assistance Implementation in Kiev -- Assistance: "East Joins West for Change?" -- Civil Society: Insiders or Outsiders? -- Gender and Women's Issues: How Are They Mediated? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7-Local Women's NGOs as Aid Recipients -- Assistance: "The West Is the Best?" -- Civil Society: "Professionals Without a Profession" -- Gender and Women's Issues: What Do They Mean Locally? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8-Civil Society Assistance Discourse and Its Impact -- The Findings: Unpacking the Civil Society Assistance Discourse -- Social and Political Effects of the Civil Society Assistance Discourse -- Table 8.1: Core Notions of Civil Society Assistance Discourse at ThreeLevels of Abstraction -- Notes -- Appendix 1: List of Interviews -- Note -- Appendix 2: Cited Documents -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

Considerable material and human resources are devoted to building democratic institutions around the world. Why, then, do assistance programs fail to meet their proclaimed goals? And why aren't these programs changed or abandoned when they fail? Using US assistance to women's NGOs in postcommunist Ukraine as a case study, Kateryna Pishchikova shows why democracy promotion programs have a limited or even negative impact on democracy in recipient countries. Combining analysis of policy documents with in-depth interviews and observations, she explains the persistence of aid despite the disillusionment of its beneficiaries.

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