Aiding War or Peace? The Insiders’ View on Aid to Postconflict Transitions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6392152
AutoresSusanna P Campbell (0000-0002-5608-3939, American University), Gabriele Spilker (0000-0003-2490-1981, University of Konstanz)
Año2022
Volumen84
Número3
Páginas1370-1383
Fecha de publicación2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/718353
OpenAlexW3216967168
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas62

International aid donors now allocate the majority of development assistance to conflict-affected countries. Aid scholarship largely classifies this subset of recipients as poorly governed countries where donors bypass the government in favor or third-party implementers. We argue that further disaggregation shows how donors use different aid types—humanitarian, transitional, development, and budgetary aid—to support postconflict transitions. We expect that when a postconflict country signals progression toward peace, donors will give development and budgetary aid to the government and withdraw humanitarian and transitional aid; when the country signals regression toward violence, donors will do the inverse. To test our expectations, we use an original survey-embedded experiment completed by 1,130 aid experts around the globe. Our findings generally support our expectations, although they reveal important nuances. In particular, they show that experts are more certain of how donors aid countries that are progressing toward peace than those that are returning to war

Aid effectiveness · Developing country · Development aid · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Globe · Government (linguistics · Humanitarian aid · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development