U.S. Economic Aid and Political Repression
An Empirical Evaluation of U.S. Foreign Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12419467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick M Regan (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 613-628 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591299504800308 |
| OpenAlex | W2056052079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 17 |
The U.S. Congress has mandated that foreign aid be used in a manner that distances the U.S. from regimes which consistently violate the human rights of their populations, and promotes more acceptable human rights records in recipient countries. There has been considerable scholarly attention devoted to the first of these congressional mandates, though as yet little effort has been made to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid programs in actually changing human rights behavior This essay is a first attempt at evaluating the impact of changes in economic assistance on changes in the amount of political abuse perpetrated by those on the receiving end of the assistance programs. Although others have shown that Carter and Reagan distributed their respective aid programs differently, the findings presented below demonstrate that economic aid has no discernable effect on the human rights records of the recipients; this result holds across both the Carter and Reagan administrations
Economics · Foreign policy · Human rights · Political economy · Political repression · Political science · Politics · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2023 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |