An Event-Driven Aid Program: News Media Coverage and U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance

Belle, Douglas A. Van; Rioux, Jean-Sébastien; Potter, David M.

doi:10.1057/9781403973481_8

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“…Further, the news coverage variable alone accounted for the majority of the explained variance. A subsequent analysis (Van Belle, 1999) 12 demonstrated the robustness of this relationship in foreign disaster aid models that included a wide variety of control variables and potentially confounding influences.…”

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The Influence of Le Monde Coverage on French Foreign Aid Allocations

Rioux¹,

Belle²

2005

Int Studies Q

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This study explores the role that Le Monde coverage plays in the allocation of French development aid. It is expected that foreign policy officials will try to match the magnitude of their actions with what they expect is the public's perception of the importance of the aid recipient. News media salience serves as an easily accessible indicator of that domestic political importance and, in the case of foreign aid, this suggests that higher levels of news coverage of a less developed country will lead to higher aid commitments. Statistical analyses of French aid commitments during the period 1986–1998 demonstrate that while the most important predictor of foreign aid is the official adoption of the French language by the aid recipient, the levels of Le Monde coverage are consistently and significantly correlated with levels of French foreign aid.

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The Influence of Le Monde Coverage on French Foreign Aid Allocations

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Belle²

2005

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“…Further, the news coverage variable alone accounted for the majority of the explained variance. A subsequent analysis demonstrated the robustness of this relationship in models that included a wide variety of control variables and potentially confounding influences (Van Belle, 1999.…”

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“…The initial study of a more general influence of media on foreign aid ( Van Belle and Hook, 2000) examined variations in the commitments of US development aid in relation to levels of US network television news coverage of recipient countries. A subsequent analysis demonstrated the robustness of this relationship in models that included a wide variety of control variables and potentially confounding influences ( Van Belle, 1999. 1 Studies of US disaster aid allocations produced results that are even more striking.…”

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News Media Coverage Influence on Japan's Foreign Aid Allocations

Potter

Belle

2004

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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This study explores the role that news coverage plays in the allocation of Japanese development aid. Conceptually, it is expected that democratic foreign policy officials, including those working in bureaucratic governmental structures will try to match the magnitude of their actions with what they expect is the public's perception of the importance of the recipient. News media salience serves an easily accessible indicator of that domestic political importance and, in the case of foreign aid, this suggests that higher levels of news coverage of a less-developed country will lead to higher aid commitments. The statistical analysis demonstrates that the level of news coverage is a statistically significant factor in Japanese aid distributions. More significantly, the analysis demonstrates that separating grant aid from other forms of aid is critical for the empirical examination of the determinants of Japanese aid.Foreign aid allocations are generally explained in terms of international politics or state-centric models of foreign policy. Comparative analyses have demonstrated that aid allocations tend to reflect the international political roles and interests of individual aid donors (see, for example, Schraeder, Hook, and Taylor (1998);Meernik, Krueger, and Poe (1998);Noël and Thérien (1995);Hook (1995);Lumsdaine (1993);and McKinlay (1979)). Studies of how foreign policy influences from sources other than the international political arena affect foreign aid allocations are underrepresented in the scholarly literature on foreign aid. Moreover, despite differences in national aid programs and the well-known political differences between the various donor states,

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“…The application of domestic factors to the study of foreign aid has been limited to critiques, specific cases or historical analyses of programs. Other than the preliminary analyses for this study (Van Belle and Hook, 2000;Van Belle, 1999), domestic influences have not been included in the empirical examination of aid allocations. This is conceptually disturbing for those who espouse a domestic perspective on foreign policy, but it is also at odds with the concerns expressed by aid officials and international aid organizations such as the OECD.…”

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