Aiding the Virtuous Circle? International Development Assistance and Citizen Confidence in Government in Bangladesh

Winters, Matthew S.; Dietrich, Simone; Mahmud, Minhaj

doi:10.1080/17502977.2018.1520954

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“…In villages where more of the inhabitants received foreign aid, respondents were less likely to attribute legitimacy to ISAF. This supports the argument that Afghans may see the state as effectively managing foreign aid, therefore attributing legitimacy to the state and not to ISAF (see also Dietrich and Winters 2015;Winters, Dietrich, and Mahmud 2018). Additionally, since food aid is considered by this study providing food aid might increase the legitimacy of other external or non-state actors, but not of ISAF, since village inhabitants may not link ISAF to food aid.…”

Section: Analysis and Resultssupporting

confidence: 79%

“…This result underlines that the link between governance effectiveness and legitimacy is not as linear and straight-forward as often assumed by policy makers and statebuilding initiatives. Attribution of governance effectiveness to a specific governance actor is a key condition for the linkage between effectiveness and legitimacy to work (see also Ciorciari and Krasner 2018;Winters, Dietrich, and Mahmud 2018). This finding fosters the hope that effective governance can set in motion a virtuous circle of governance in areas of limited statehood, if citizens (can) attribute this effectiveness in governance to a specific governance actor or institution.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Only few studies take external governance actors into account (see, e.g. Ciorciari and Krasner 2018;Winters, Dietrich, and Mahmud 2018). For Afghanistan Lyall, Blair, and Imai (2013, 696-697) have found that harm inflicted by ISAF undermines ISAF support.…”

Section: Perceptions Of Service Provision and External Governance Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Securing Legitimacy? Perceptions of Security and ISAF’s Legitimacy in Northeast Afghanistan

Stollenwerk

2018

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Using ISAF's security involvement in Afghanistan as an example, this article asks: Does the perceived provision of goods and services affect the empirical legitimacy attributed to external governance actors in areas of limited statehood? The study applies multilevel analysis to survey data for 2009-2013 from Northeast Afghanistan. The results support arguments of performance-based legitimacy. Perceptions of goods and service provision as effective have a positive impact on the legitimacy of external governance actors. However, the analysis underlines that this relationship is no automatism and that it depends on the attribution of governance effectiveness to a specific governance actor. In other words, no attribution, no legitimacy. Successfully linking more effective governance with more legitimacy is a possible impetus for a virtuous circle of governance.

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Securing Legitimacy? Perceptions of Security and ISAF’s Legitimacy in Northeast Afghanistan

Stollenwerk

2018

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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“…Third, some research suggests that assessments of national governments are affected by foreign aid (Winters et al 2018), or that Cohesion Policy could lead to increased EU identity (Borz et al 2018), thus there could be issues of endogeneity. We check whether the relationship between national corruption perceptions and support for Cohesion Policy are spurious to 'having heard' of Cohesion Policy, 'having benefitted from any EU project', neither of which alters the results.…”

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confidence: 99%

The EU as a savior and a saint? Corruption and public support for redistribution

Bauhr

Charron

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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While the European Union is plagued by considerable social and economic inequality, not least in the wake of both the enlargement of the Union and the financial crises, we know surprisingly little about the sources of public support for redistribution and the EU:s most significant tool for reducing inequalities: Cohesion Policy. We suggest that, while identity, ideology and utilitarian concerns may motivate support for international redistribution, such support is highly contingent on perceptions of domestic corruption. Using unique and newly collected survey data, we show that perceptions of domestic corruption increase support for within-EU redistribution but only in contexts where the quality of government is low and public service delivery deficient. Perceptions of corruption have no such effect in contexts where the quality of government is high. We conclude that perceptions of domestic corruption will drive support for Cohesion Policy in contexts where the EU can be seen as both a potential savior andrelative to domestic governmenta saint. We discuss implications for further EU integration.

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“…They explore whether the emergence of a virtuous circle depends on the policy field (see e.g. Winters, Dietrich, and Mahmud (2018) on public health; Mcloughlin (2018) on education, or Stollenwerk (2018b) on security) or type of governance actor (see e.g. Mcloughlin (2018) for state-, Krieger (2018) for non-state-, and Ciorciari and Krasner (2018) for external actors).…”

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Virtuous or Vicious Circle? Governance Effectiveness and Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood

Schmelzle

Stollenwerk

2018

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Effective and legitimate governance supposedly form a mutually reinforcing relationship, a virtuous circle of governance. We critically explore this argument in the context of limited statehood and underline why such areas challenge key assumptions underpinning the virtuous circle argument. In this special issue we ask: Does the effectiveness of governance affect the legitimacy of governance actors and institutions in areas of limited statehood, and vice versa? We develop a theoretical model of the virtuous circle and show that making such circles work is more complex, demanding and unlikely than often assumed. Empirical studies need to take these complexities into account, and policy makers are well-advised to adjust their policies accordingly.

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Aiding the Virtuous Circle? International Development Assistance and Citizen Confidence in Government in Bangladesh

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Securing Legitimacy? Perceptions of Security and ISAF’s Legitimacy in Northeast Afghanistan

Securing Legitimacy? Perceptions of Security and ISAF’s Legitimacy in Northeast Afghanistan

The EU as a savior and a saint? Corruption and public support for redistribution

Virtuous or Vicious Circle? Governance Effectiveness and Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood

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