Thank you so much for this comment. The evidence from a bunch of good papers seems to suggest that it’s about incentives to make democratic reforms. In terms of whether EA could contribute enough money—the Carnegie and Marinov paper I cite finds small but still noticeable improvements in democracy in response to relatively insignificant increases in conditional aid from the EU (for example, going from 20 million dollars in aid to 25 million).
Thank you so much for this comment. The evidence from a bunch of good papers seems to suggest that it’s about incentives to make democratic reforms. In terms of whether EA could contribute enough money—the Carnegie and Marinov paper I cite finds small but still noticeable improvements in democracy in response to relatively insignificant increases in conditional aid from the EU (for example, going from 20 million dollars in aid to 25 million).