The Democracy Aid Calculus
Regimes, Political Opponents, and the Allocation of US Democracy Assistance, 1981–2009
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11895288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy M Peterson (0000-0003-1159-4898, University of South Carolina, corresponding author), Jennifer M Scott (0000-0001-7415-9506, Texas Christian University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 268-293 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Interactions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0629 • E-ISSN: 1547-7444 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03050629.2017.1339701 |
| OpenAlex | W2625160306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 88 |
To encourage the spread of democracy throughout the developing world, the United States provides targeted aid to governments, political parties, and other non-governmental groups and organizations. This study examines the calculations behind the allocation of democracy assistance, with special attention to the role of regime conditions and policy compatibility in the provision of aid. We argue that both concerns—the opportunity for successful democratization and critical goals related to containing and countering political opponents—are central to democracy aid allocations. We theorize how these two concerns determine the amount of aid allocated, operationalizing these concepts using measures of the original democracy level, change in the democracy level, and policy compatibility. We find support for our argument in tests of US democracy aid allocations by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1981–2009
Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Operationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
The changing nature and architecture of U.S. democracy assistance
Conditional Aid Under What Conditions? Exploring Consistency in Performance‐Based Aid Allocation
Costly Signals
National Perspectives and Quantitative Datasets
Democratic Openings and Country Visibility
Contextualizing Individual Attitudes on Economic Statecraft
Explaining a new foreign aid recipient
Aid accessibility
Commercialising the struggle
Democratizing dictators? Non-democratic regime conditions and the allocation of US democracy assistance, 1975–2010
Foreign Policy as Pork-barrel Spending
Protecting democracy from abroad
Triangulating Peace
Friendly Tyrants
International Military Alliances, 1648-2008
No One's World
National Interest and Foreign Aid
Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Grasping the Democratic Peace
National Security Liberalism and American Foreign Policy
War and Peace in International Rivalry
Foreign aid
Democracy Promotion
American Democracy Promotion
Reluctant Crusaders
Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid
Can America Finance Freedom? Assessing U.S. Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft
The Strategic Substitution of United States Foreign Aid
US Disaster Aid and Bilateral Trade Growth
Political Strategies of External Support for Democratization
U.S. Economic Aid and Political Repression
Determinants of International Emergency Aid—Humanitarian Need Only
More Dollars than Sense
Ranking foreign donors
Taking “enduring” out of enduring rivalry
Changing aid regimes? U.S. foreign aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Democratization and the Danger of War
Democratization and the Danger of War
Promoting democracy in Latin America
A Grand Strategy for America
Testing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy
Escalation of interstate crises of conflictual dyads
Countering adversaries and cultivating friends
National Interests and US Foreign Aid
The Diffusion of Regime Contention in European Democratization, 1830-1940
A Foreign Policy Model of U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocation
The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990–2003
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Explaining U.S. Intervention in Third World Internal Wars, 1945-1989
Human Rights Practices and the Distribution of U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin American Countries
Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle
What Is the Enemy of My Enemy? Causes and Consequences of Imbalanced International Relations, 1816–2001
Foreign Aid Effectiveness and the Strategic Goals of Donor Governments
Foreign Aid Allocation Tactics and Democratic Change in Africa
When is Foreign Aid Selfish, When is it Selfless
Theoretical and Logical Issues in the Study of International Diffusion
International Linkage and Democratization
Fair-Weather Allies? Terrorism and the Allocation of US Foreign Aid
Democratic Dominoes
Expanded Trade and GDP Data
The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Human Rights
Birds of a Feather
The "Coup Contagion" Hypothesis
Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions
Sponsoring Democracy
Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments1
Identifying Rivals and Rivalries in World Politics
United States Human Rights Policy and Foreign Assistance
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy
Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization
A Political Economy of Aid
Building democracy’ through foreign aid
Assisting democrats or resisting dictators? The nature and impact of democracy support by the United States National Endowment for Democracy, 1990–99
Linkage versus Leverage. Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change
Diffusion Is No Illusion
Human Rights and Economic Aid Allocation under Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter
Reputation and Interstate Conflict
The Democratic Domino Theory
On Waves, Clusters, and Diffusion
Armed Conflicts, 1946-2012
Examining the Goals of US Foreign Assistance in the Post-cold War Period, 1991-96
US Military Aid in the 1980s
Can the United States Promote Democracy
Give or Take
Human Rights and the Allocation of US Military Assistance
A Crisis-Density Formulation for Identifying Rivalries
The New Rivalry Dataset
Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946-1986
Diffusion, Reinforcement, Geopolitics, and the Spread of War
Democracy and the Peaceful Settlement of International Conflict
Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992
Liberalism and World Politics
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |