Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions

By B. D. de Mesquita, Alastair Smith. 2007

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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In Development

1. Dustin Tingley
2. Helen V. Milner
3. B. D. de Mesquita
4. Alastair Smith
5. Simone Dietrich
6. S. Bermeo
7. Kristopher W. Ramsay
8. Faisal Z. Ahmed

In Information Systems

1. Dustin Tingley
2. Helen V. Milner
3. Alastair Smith

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Dustin Tingley
2. B. D. de Mesquita
3. Helen V. Milner
4. Alastair Smith
5. Kristopher W. Ramsay
6. S. Bermeo
7. Zachary M. Jones
8. Daniel W. Hill

Citations in the corpus

• Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent (2011, neutral): “Looking over a long time horizon, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2010), Djankov et al. (2008), and Morrison (2009) argue that aid helps entrench the regime in power. Goldsmith (2001) finds that aid has a small, positive impact on the likelihood for democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, although Dunni”
• Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change (2009, background): “This approach is intended to minimize concerns about the endogeneity of the amount of aid received (Alesina & Dollar, 2000; Bueno de Mesquita & Smith, 2007 ).”
• THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. FOREIGN AID: AMERICAN LEGISLATORS AND THE DOMESTIC POLITICS OF AID (2009, background): “Aid may well be used as an exchange mechanism to alter other countries’ behavior, but it must first command enough domestic support to win Congressional approval (Bueno de Mesquita and Smith, 2007).”