The Rise and Fall of the Aid Effectiveness Norm
The Rise and Fall of the Aid Effectiveness Norm
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DOI：
10.1057/s41287-020-00272-1
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发表时间：
2020-04-21
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Brown, Stephen
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作者：
Brown, Stephen
本文从芬尼莫尔和西金克的规范“生命周期”的透镜分析了援助有效性规范的兴衰。我认为，尽管捐助者和受援者都赞同这些基本原则，但这种规范只是微弱地内化了：他们不愿意克服自己的不情愿和重要的抑制因素，以实质性地改变他们在实地的做法。在规范崩溃之后，捐助方主导的进程试图通过规范替代，引入更广泛的行为体，以获得合法性并更广泛地传播规范。这些变化未能说服新的捐助者参与，并导致规范衰减到不再构成规范的程度。这一案例突出表明，必须完善生命周期模型，以考虑到弱的内在化和可能存在的第二个阶段，在这个阶段中，规范下降并可能死亡。
This article analyzes the rise and fall of the aid effectiveness norm, using the lens of Finnemore and Sikkink's norm 'life cycle'. I argue that, although donors and recipients endorsed the founding principles, the norm was only feebly internalized: they were unwilling to overcome their reluctance-and important disincentives-to substantially change their practices on the ground. After the norm cascaded, the donor-led process sought to gain legitimacy and diffuse the norm more broadly by trying to bring in a wider range of actors through norm substitution. These changes failed to convince emerging donors to engage and caused the norm to decay to the point where it ceased to constitute a norm. This case highlights the importance of refining the life cycle model to take into account weak internalization and the potential existence of a second phase in which norms decline and potentially die.