Coming into Money: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Leader Survival

Licht, Amanda A.

doi:10.1177/0022002709351104

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“…12 Aid to government channels may be seen as a way to prop up a regime that is having to use repression in the face of increasing domestic opposition (Escribà-Folch, 2010;Licht, 2010;Ritter, 2014 Congressional leaders and government officials have traditionally favored the promotion of leader stability through continued government-to-government assistance to the president (Berger, 2012).…”

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Human rights shaming through INGOs and foreign aid delivery

Dietrich

Murdie

2016

Rev Int Organ

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Does the "shaming" of human rights violations influence foreign aid delivery decisions across OECD donor countries? We examine the effect of shaming, defined as targeted negative attention by human rights international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), on donor decisions about how to deliver bilateral aid. We argue that INGO shaming of recipient countries leads donor governments, on average, to "bypass" the recipient government in favor of non-state aid delivery channels, including international and local NGOs and international organizations (IOs). However, we expect this relationship to be conditional on a donor country's position in the international system. Minor power countries have limited influence in global affairs and are therefore more able to centrally promote human rights in their foreign policy. Major power countries, on the other hand, shape world politics and often confront "realpolitik" concerns that may require government-to-government aid relations in the presence of INGO shaming. We expect aid officials of minor donor countries to be more likely to condition aid delivery decisions on human rights shaming than their counterparts of major donor countries. Using compositional data analysis, we test our argument using originally collected data on human rights shaming events in a time-series cross-sectional framework from 2004 to 2010. We find support for our hypotheses: On average, OECD donor governments increase the proportion of bypass when INGOs shame the recipient government. When differentiating between donor types we find that this finding holds for minor but not for major powers. These results add to both our understanding of the influences of aid allocation decision-making and our understanding of the role of INGOs on foreign-policy.

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Human rights shaming through INGOs and foreign aid delivery

Dietrich

Murdie

2016

Rev Int Organ

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“…Most research on recipient characteristics focuses on perverse political incentives when receiving a large influx of foreign aid. Politicians often exploit foreign aid in order to maximise their survival in power (Collier and Hoeffler, 2007;Kono and Montiola, 2009;Licht, 2010;Labonne and Chase, 2011;Cruz and Schneider, 2014). The economic conditions in the recipient country also have an important effect on the success of foreign aid projects.…”

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International Development Aid: A Complex System

Wu¹

2016

Global Dynamics

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“…Our choice of leader survival as key dependent variable follows a burgeoning literature that has used leader survival as a measure of political success in a wide variety of fields such as international conflict research (Chiozza and Goemans 2004), the political economy of development (Bueno de Mesquita and Smith 2009), and foreign aid decision making (Licht 2010), among others. We contribute to this literature by providing a fine-grained analysis of how extreme weather events affect leader survival in different economic and political regimes.…”

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Climate Impacts, Political Institutions, and Leader Survival: Effects of Droughts and Flooding Precipitation

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We explore how the political survival of leaders in different political regimes is affected by drought and flooding precipitation, which are the two major anticipated impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Using georeferenced climate data for the entire world and the Archigos dataset for the period of 1950-2010, we find that irregular political exits, such as coups or revolutions, are not significantly affected by climate impacts. Similarly, drought has a positive but insignificant effect on all types of political exits. On the other hand, we find that floods increase political turnover through the regular means such as elections or term limits. Democracies are better able to withstand the pressures arising from the economic and social disruptions associated with high precipitation than other institutional arrangements. Our results further suggest that, in the context of floods, political institutions play a more important role than economic development for the leaders' political survival.

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Coming into Money: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Leader Survival

Cited by 111 publications

References 60 publications

Human rights shaming through INGOs and foreign aid delivery

Human rights shaming through INGOs and foreign aid delivery

International Development Aid: A Complex System

Climate Impacts, Political Institutions, and Leader Survival: Effects of Droughts and Flooding Precipitation

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