Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid

by Van der Veen, A. Maurits

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Shows how different countries' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.

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Full title :Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid.

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Shows how different countries' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (312 pages)

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ISBN:9781139137997, 1139137999, 1283316811, 9781283316811, 1139142003, 9781139142007, 9780511842177, 0511842171, 1139140256, 9781139140256, 1107228387, 9781107228382, 1139139541, 9781139139540, 9786613316813, 6613316814, 1139145320, 9781139145329, 1139141120, 9781139141123
oclc:ocn763158121
LC Classification:HC60 .V397 2011
Dewey Decimal:338.91

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 The many uses of foreign aid; Development assistance past and present; The goals of foreign aid; Frames and foreign aid policy: the model; Frames and foreign aid policy: the evidence; Conclusion; 2 One policy, multiple goals: framing and foreign aid; International relations theory: constraints, preferences, ideas; Frames and discourse in policy-making; Measuring frames; Origins and evolution of frames; Establishing frames as causal factors; A frame model of foreign aid policy; Basic hypotheses; Conclusion.

3 Debates about aidMethodology; Debates and codes; Speaking turns and aggregation across speakers; From arguments to broad frames; The dataset; National patterns; Belgium; Italy; The Netherlands; Norway; Using the data to generate predictions; Conclusion; 4 Aid frames; The origins of aid frames; Changes over time in aid frames23; The 1960s and 1970s: consolidating aid as a policy area; Aid discourse in the 1980s and 1990s: crisis, fatigue, renewal; Discussion; Governments as frame entrepreneurs; Governments and policy visibility; Conclusion; 5 The administration of aid policy.

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