Public Opinion and Foreign Aid: A Review Essay

Milner, Helen V.; Tingley, Dustin

doi:10.1080/03050629.2013.784090

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“…Women tend to be less militaristic and more opposed to spending on war or military conflicts overseas compared with men (Greeno & Maccoby, 1993). Findings for the United States suggest that men are more likely to support foreign spending on the military than women, while women are more likely than men to support foreign spending on humanitarian causes (Milner & Tingley, 2013). …”

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Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Cheng

Smyth

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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Public support for foreign aid in donor countries is highly correlated with how much donor countries are willing to give. There is, perhaps surprisingly, relatively little evidence on the determinants of public support for foreign aid in donor countries. And the evidence that does exist is for donors that are developed democratic countries. In this study we examine the determinants of public support for foreign aid in China. China is a particularly interesting case because it is both a recipient and donor of foreign aid. Thus, one would expect that the public's perceptions of China's own development needs would influence its support for China donating to other countries. We find that while political ideology and sense of national identity are the most important determinants of support for foreign aid, several demographic characteristics are also important. We also find that those living in the lower income western provinces and in provinces with higher poverty rates express less support for giving foreign aid. We draw policy implications from the findings for better targeting engagement strategies designed to garner support for foreign aid.

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“…First, this study contributes to the sparse literature on public opinion about aid in donor countries (Milner & Tingley, 2013). There is limited research on mass attitudes towards aid in recipient and donor countries (Chong & Gradstein, 2008;Goldsmith et al, 2014;Knack & Paxton, 2008).…”

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Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Cheng

Smyth

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Views on foreign aid and aid-related decisions are equally well investigated. 22 It is also known that the European public opinion tends to support foreign aid, whereas the people in the United States are more critical of the US aid programs. 23 However, recipient views on foreign aid and donors are much less surveyed, partly because the most important aid-related decisions are made by donor governments regardless to increasing prevalence of concepts such as ownership or partnership.…”

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Eastern and Western Perceptions on EU Aid in Light of the Arab Spring

Paragi

2015

Democracy and Security

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The European Union welcomed the demonstrators' demands wholeheartedly during the Arab Spring, trying to maximize the assistance that it could offer to support genuine democratic transition, at least at a rhetorical level. This article reflects on the changes in the neighborhood policy by focusing on public perceptions measured in Europe and in countries in close proximity to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. European views on solidarity are compared to local public opinion on EU involvement in the region. Recipient views in Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, and Israel are explored by analyzing relevant results of the Arab Barometer and Neighborhood Barometer surveys. Findings indicate that the Middle Eastern public opinion tends to appreciate the EU's gestures with the exception of Egypt, but conditionality is more in line with European public opinion.

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“…Milner and Tingley (2013), however, question an inherent assumption that the public either knows nothing or cares little about foreign aid.…”

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Poor understanding? Challenges to Global Development Education

Buchanan

Varadharajan

2018

CCS Journal

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As members of a global community, we cohabit a metaphorically shrinking physical environment, and are increasingly connected one to another, and to the world, by ties of culture, economics, politics, communication and the like. Education is an essential component in addressing inequalities and injustices concerning global rights and responsibilities. The increasing multicultural nature of societies locally, enhanced access to distal information, and the work of charitable organisations worldwide are some of the factors that have contributed to the interest in, and need for, understanding global development education. The project on which this paper reports sought answers to the question: to what extent and in what ways can a semester-long subject enhance and extend teacher education students’ understandings of and responses to global inequalities and global development aid? In the course of the project, a continuum model emerged, as follows: Indifference or ignorance ➝ pity and charity ➝ partnership and development among equals. In particular, this paper reports on some of the challenges and obstacles that need to be addressed in order to enhance pre-service teachers’ understandings of global development education. The study, conducted in Australia, has implications for global development education in other developed nations.

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Public Opinion and Foreign Aid: A Review Essay

Cited by 141 publications

References 41 publications

Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Eastern and Western Perceptions on EU Aid in Light of the Arab Spring

Poor understanding? Challenges to Global Development Education

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