Problems, Politics, and Policy Streams: A Reconsideration of U.S. Foreign Aid Behavior Toward Africa.

Examines the usefulness of the foreign assistance policy process focusing on the foreign assistance behavior of the U.S. towards Africa between 1982 and 2001. Overview of the study of U.S. foreign assistance; Background on the two-stage aid decision making process used in the study to analyze foreign aid policy behavior; Measures used in the study to capture the external determinants of foreign assistance policy.