Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments.
There has been much criticism of donor governments who give aid to states that violate human rights. This has fuelled concerns about how such coverage affects public support for foreign aid. In response, donors increasingly use aid suspensions to signal to domestic audiences that a regime has been s...
| Published in: | Political Studies Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 603 - 624 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2022
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