Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa

Dietrich, Simone; Wright, Joseph

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“…Governments as open systems can be impacted by these pressures causing changes in governance aspects (Scott, 1998). Impacts of aid dependence on governance have been established by scholars such as Dietrich and Wright (2012). These external forces exert different levels of pressure based on how individual countries conform to the conditionality.…”

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Public Perceptions of the Role of IT in Resolving Governance Challenges in a Transition State: THe Case of Tanzania

Mimbi

Kyobe

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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International bodies and donors demand that countries demonstrate how they use IT to ensure effective governance. However, measuring the role of IT in governance remains problematic, particularly in transition economies characterised by poor IT capabilities. This paper measured public perceptions of the role of IT in addressing governance challenges in transition Tanzania. The paper identifies (i) usage of IT for governance and democratic purposes, (ii) governance processes and (iii) external pressures as key interplaying factors influencing effective governance. Adopting the Gestalts (configurational) approach, we argue that IT contributes to effective governance when it is coherent with (ii) and (iii). One hundred and sixty six members of the public were surveyed and cluster analysis was used to determine the degree of coherence. None of the three clusters of (i), (ii) and (iii) that emerged revealed a strong coherent relationship, indicating that IT was not playing a major role in addressing governance challenges in transition Tanzania.

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Section: 4mentioning

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Public Perceptions of the Role of IT in Resolving Governance Challenges in a Transition State: THe Case of Tanzania

Mimbi

Kyobe

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…This is good news, as most aid comes from democratic donors, although non-democracies like China are also increasingly important providers of aid (Tarrósy 2012). Kangoye (2011) concludes that aid can offset the negative effects terms of trade shocks may have on the quality of democracy, and Kalyvitis -Vlachaki (2011) as well as Dietrich -Wright (2013) find evidence that levels of democracy aid are positively correlated with the likelihood of democratic regime change.…”

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“…A shift in a country's Polity score from -10 to -7 is different than a shift from -2 to +1. The alternative democratisation variable, "multiparty", is also a dummy, and focuses on the occurrence of multiparty elections, based on data and definitions in Cheibub et al (2010) and Dietrich -Wright (2013). Its value is 1, if the country holds multiparty elections resulting in real opposition parties present in an elected legislature for the first time ever, or after a previous breakdown of democracy.…”

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“…Its value is 1, if the country holds multiparty elections resulting in real opposition parties present in an elected legislature for the first time ever, or after a previous breakdown of democracy. This variable captures only regime changes from autocracy to some form (partial or full) of democracy, and it is much more directly observable for donors than most other forms of democratic change (Dietrich -Wright 2013).…”

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“…The dependent variable as well as per capita GDP and population are entered in natural logarithm. All variables are taken from the World Bank's World Development Indicators database (World Bank 2012), with the exception of the dependent variable, which is from the OECD (2012), and the democracy variables from the Polity IV dataset (Cheibub et al 2010;Marshall et al 2011;Dietrich -Wright 2013).…”

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The paper examines how fl ows of foreign aid have reacted to events of democratisation in developing countries. Using a panel dataset of 136 aid-receiving countries between 1980 and 2009, aid allocation regressions reveal that Western donors in general have tended to react to visible, major democratic transitions by increasing aid to the partner country, but no signifi cant increases can be identifi ed in the case of countries introducing smaller democratic reforms. The increases in aid fl ows are not sustained over time, implying that donors do not provide long-term support to nascent democracies. Also, democratisations in Sub-Saharan Africa do not seem to have been rewarded with higher levels of aid.

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Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa

Cited by 27 publications

References 51 publications

Public Perceptions of the Role of IT in Resolving Governance Challenges in a Transition State: THe Case of Tanzania

Public Perceptions of the Role of IT in Resolving Governance Challenges in a Transition State: THe Case of Tanzania

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