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Foreign Aid and Government Legitimacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2015

Simone Dietrich  and
Matthew S. Winters
Simone Dietrich
Affiliation:
Department of Government, University of Essex, UK; e-mail: [email protected]
Matthew S. Winters
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Branding of foreign aid may undermine government legitimacy in developing countries when citizens see social services being provided by external actors. We run a survey experiment on a sample of Indian respondents. All subjects learn about an HIV/AIDS program; treated subjects learn that it was foreign-funded. We find null results that, along with existing results in the literature obtained from observational data, call into question the view that foreign-funded service delivery interferes with the development of a fiscal contract between the state and its citizens.

Keywords

Survey experimentforeign aidgovernment legitimacyfiscal contractIndia
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Experimental Political Science , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Winter 2015 , pp. 164 - 171
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Copyright © The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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