“…Interest in the effect of ''good governance'' on aid allocation is of a more recent nature, even though McKinlay and Little (1977) already tested for the effect of political stability and democracy on aid allocation. Most of the existing literature has focused on the case of U.S. foreign aid allocation, particularly with respect to the role of political and civil rights and personal integrity rights, where the latter refer to freedom from political imprisonment, torture, disappearance, violence, and political murder (Cingranelli and Pasquarello, 1985;Carleton and Stohl, 1987;Poe, 1992;Abrams and Lewis, 1993;Poe and Sirirangsi, 1994;Poe, Pilatovsky, Miller, and Ogundele, 1994;Apodaca and Stohl, 1999). 2 These studies differ of course in their results from each other, and sometimes substantially so, due to different data sets, different time periods looked at, different estimation techniques used.…”