I. Introduction and Argument
1. Introduction
2. The argument: structure, agency, and democracy promotion
3. Tame democracy assistance: what it is and why it matters
II. Testing the Argument
4. Delegation and the allocation of democracy assistance
5. Changes in American grant-making
6. Creating the democracy establishment
7. Jordan: aid in the shadow of geopolitics
8. Tunisia: reform after revolution
III. Conclusions
9. Should democracy promoters be set free?