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100 _aGreene, Zachary D.
245 _aDomestic politics and changes in foreign aid allocation:
_bthe role of party preferences
260 _c2018
300 _ap.284-301.
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520 _aResources 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. - Reproduced.
650 _aForeign aid
700 _aLicht, Amanda A.
773 _aPolitical Research Quarterly
906 _aForeign aid
999 _c506823
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