On the Question of Generosity: Who Supports Foreign Aid to Whom?-Lessons from Turkey and Greece
On the Question of Generosity: Who Supports Foreign Aid to Whom?-Lessons from Turkey and Greece
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DOI:
10.1093/ijpor/edz008
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发表时间:
2020-03-01
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1.8
通讯作者:
Kiratli, Osman Sabri
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作者:
Kiratli, Osman Sabri
The link between public opinion and actual aid flow is well documented by studies that find evidence that policymakers are sensitive to public opinion on allocating foreign aid and that the aid budget of donor countries is closely associated with public support (eg, Lumsdaine, 1993; Milner, Hawkins, Lake, Nielson, & Tierney, 2006; Mosley, 1985; Stern, 1998). Yet, when one moves from aggregate to the individual level, the literature becomes ‘‘thinner,’’as Milner & Tingley (2013) put it. Several investigations into the economic factors that drive citizen attitudes on foreign aid focus on the endowment of capital and education levels (eg, Milner & Tingley, 2010), relative income (eg, Chong & Gradstein, 2008), and satisfaction with their personal financial situation and the domestic government (eg, Chong & Gradstein, 2008; Diven & Constantelos, 2009). At the ideational end of the spectrum, studies identify the substantial roles of dispositional beliefs on foreign policy (eg, Wittkopf & Maggiotto, 1983), the role of the state in economic management and public welfare (Paxton & Knack, 2012), ideology and partisanship (eg, Imbeau, 1988; Noël & Thérien, 1995; Tingley, 2010), generalized trust (eg, Bayram, 2017), and religiosity (eg, Lumsdaine, 1993; Nelson, 1988; Paxton & Knack, 2012). Though studies differ in prioritizing economic or ideational sets of predictors to explain international solidarity attitudes, they largely converge on two grounds. First, almost all these pieces focus on major Development Assistant Committee (DAC) members and disregard smaller DAC members or non-DAC contributors of ODA. However, global aid figures confirm the aid market is increasingly populated by emerging donors such as China, Russia, Brazil, and Turkey. The OECD reports that non-DAC donors contributed more than 13.1% of total development aid in