New Donors, New Goals? Altruism, Self-Interest, and Domestic Political Support in Development Cooperation in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-73
Author(s):  
Gino Pauselli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Predictive Strength ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTThe literature on aid allocation shows that many factors influence donors’ decision to provide aid. However, our knowledge about foreign aid allocation is based on traditional foreign aid, from developed to developing countries, and many assumptions of these theories do not hold when applied to southern donors. This article argues that south-south development cooperation (SSDC) can be explained by the strength of development cooperation’s domestic allies and foes. Specifically, it identifies civil society organizations as allies of SSDC and nationalist groups as opponents of SSDC. By using for the first time data on SSDC activities in Latin America, this article shows the predictive strength of a liberal domestic politics approach in comparison to the predictive power of alternative explanations. The results speak to scholars of both traditional foreign aid and south-south development cooperation in highlighting the limits of traditional theories of foreign aid motivations.

scholarly journals Domestic Politics and Changes in Foreign Aid Allocation: The Role of Party Preferences

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary D. Greene ◽  
Amanda A. Licht
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Partisan Theory ◽  
Disaster Aid

Resources for foreign aid come under attack when parties that care little for international affairs come to power. Internationally focused parties of the left and right, however, prefer to use aid as a tool to pursue their foreign policy goals. Yet varying goals based on left–right ideology differentiate the way donors use foreign aid. We leverage sector aid to test hypotheses from our Partisan Theory of Aid Allocation and find support for the idea that domestic political preferences affect foreign aid behavior. Left-internationalist governments increase disaster aid, while parochial counterparts cut spending on budget assistance and aid that bolsters recipients’ trade viability. Conservative governments favor trade-boosting aid. We find consistent, nuanced, evidence for our perspective from a series of Error Correction Models (ECMs) and extensive robustness checks. By connecting theories of foreign aid to domestic politics, our approach links prominent, but often disconnected, fields of political research and raises important questions for policymakers interested in furthering the efficacy of development aid.

The Disbursement Pattern of Japanese Foreign Aid: A Reappraisal

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Tuman ◽  
Jonathan R. Strand ◽  
Craig F. Emmert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Global Study

Three perspectives on the determinants of Japan's official development assistance (ODA) program are often represented as distinct, valid explanations of the aid program. Yet few studies have attempted to simultaneously test the hypotheses generated from all three perspectives in a global study of Japanese aid flows. This study seeks to improve the understanding of the Japanese ODA program by addressing some of the gaps in the existing literature. Providing a comprehensive analysis, the article investigates the effects of different political and economic variables on Japanese aid disbursement in eighty-six countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East from 1979 to 2002. The findings of the study make several contributions to the literature. First, the results provide strong support for the claim that humanitarian concerns, as measured by poverty and human rights conditions in recipient countries, are important determinants of aid allocation. Second, although much of the previous literature has hypothesized that Japan's aid program seeks to promote Japan's economic interests, little empirical support for this view is found in the present study. Likewise, the disbursement pattern of ODA was associated with only a limited number of US security interests; US economic interests are shown to have no effect on ODA.

Foreign aid allocation, governance, and economic growth Synopsis

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Aid Allocation

The Politics of Social Investment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silja Häusermann ◽  
Bruno Palier
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Second Step ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Substance

Recent research on the development of social investment has demonstrated reform progress not only in different regions of Europe, but also in Latin America and South-East Asia. However, the specific substance of the social investment agendas varies strongly between these regions. Why have social investment ideas and policies been more developed in some regions and countries than in others? Building on the theoretical framework of this volume, our chapter suggests that the content of regional social investment agendas depends on policy legacies in terms of investment vs consumption-oriented policies and their interaction with structural pressures. In a second step, we argue that the chances of social investment agendas to be implemented depend on the availability of political support coalitions between organizational representatives of the educated middle classes and either business or working-class actors. We illustrate our claims with reference to family policy developments in France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Social Capital and the Development of Political Support in Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Hooghe ◽  
Anna Kern
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The One ◽  
Democratic Norms

This chapter evaluates the claim that the decline of legitimacy is due to a decline of social capital. The idea that voluntary associations play an important role in establishing social cohesion and political support is a traditional insight in the field of political sociology. The basic assumption is that voluntary associations function as a training ground for democracy, where citizens involved acquire democratic norms and skills that they subsequently apply in their relation with the political system. If this argument is correct, political support should be at least partly influenced by citizens’ participation in civil society organizations. Using European Social Survey data from 2006 and 2012 the authors demonstrate that there is a clear and significant correlation between social involvement on the one hand and satisfaction with the working of democracy and political trust on the other, which largely survives the introduction of a range of control variables.

scholarly journals Homopiperazine (Hexahydro-1,4-diazepine)

Molbank ◽  
10.3390/m1200 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. M1200
Author(s):  
R. Alan Aitken ◽  
Dheirya K. Sonecha ◽  
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Keyword(s):  
13C Nmr ◽  
Title Compound ◽  
Coupling Constants ◽  
15N Nmr ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Nmr Spectrum ◽  
X Ray ◽  
First Time

The X-ray structure of the title compound has been determined for the first time. Data on its 1H–13C-NMR coupling constants and 15N-NMR spectrum are also given.

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