Back to Search
Start Over
Filling Empty Promises? Foreign Aid and Human Rights Decoupling, 1981-2011.
- Source :
-
Sociological Quarterly . Winter 2022, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p134-153. 20p. 3 Charts, 4 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2022
-
Abstract
- Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed how to fill these empty promises. This paper proposes a mechanism neglected in prior studies that might play an important role in narrowing human rights decoupling and improving world society model compliance: foreign aid. Using longitudinal analysis on a sample of 120 aid-receiving countries between 1981 and 2011, we find: total aid has a significant effect on reducing human rights decoupling; aid to good governance shows a similar pattern but the impact is much weaker; by contrast, aid to human rights has limited influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *INTERNATIONAL economic assistance
*HUMAN rights
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380253
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155217574
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1828003