Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa
Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa
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非洲的对外援助和民主发展
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2012
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通讯作者：
Joseph G Wright
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Simone Dietrich;Joseph G Wright
在过去的二十年里，捐助者越来越多地将外援与撒哈拉以南非洲的民主目标联系起来。然而，关于这一主题的系统研究通常侧重于援助如何影响民主转型。本研究通过考察两种潜在机制来探讨外援是否以及如何影响撒哈拉以南非洲地区的民主巩固进程：(1)利用援助作为购买政治改革的杠杆，以及(2)对反对派的投资。我们使用捕捉民主巩固不同方面的五个因变量来测试这些机制。利用1991年至2008年的生存分析，我们发现民主和治理援助对民主巩固具有持续的积极作用。另一方面，经济援助对巩固民主没有任何作用。
Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet systematic research on this topic typically focuses on how aid influences democratic transitions. This study investigates whether and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential mechanisms: (1) the use of aid as leverage to buy political reform, and (2) investment in the opposition. We test these mechanisms using five dependent variables that capture different aspects of democratic consolidation. Using survival analysis for the period from 1991 to 2008, we find that democracy and governance aid has a consistently positive effect on democratic consolidation. Economic aid, on the other hand, has no effect on democratic consolidation.