Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy
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对外援助促进民主吗
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2004
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通讯作者：
Stephen F. Knack
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作者：
Stephen F. Knack
援(2) 通过条件； （3）通过改善教育和增加人均收入，研究表明这有利于民主化。本研究对 1975 年至 2000 年期间大量受援国样本的援助对民主化的影响进行了多变量分析。使用两种不同的民主指数和两种不同的援助强度衡量标准，没有发现援助促进民主的证据。这一结果对于替代模型规范和估计技术（包括使用外源工具进行援助）是稳健的。如果分析仅限于冷战后时期（1990-2000年），结果是相似的，尽管美国和其他捐助者对受援国中亲西方独裁政权的依赖有所减少。
Aid potentially can contribute to democratization in several ways: (1) through technical assistance focusing on electoral processes, the strengthening of legislatures and judiciaries as checks on executive power, and the promotion of civil society organizations, including a free press; (2) through conditionality; and (3) by improving education and increasing per capita incomes, which research shows are conducive to democratization. This study provides a multivariate analysis of the impact of aid on democratization in a large sample of recipient nations over the 1975–2000 period. Using two different democracy indexes and two different measures of aid intensity, no evidence is found that aid promotes democracy. This result is robust to alternative model specifications and estimation techniques, including the use of exogenous instruments for aid. Results are similar if the analysis is confined to the post–Cold War period (1990–2000), despite the reduced dependence of the U.S. and other donors on pro-Western authoritarian regimes among aid recipient nations.