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Foreign aid and domestic politics: Voting in congress and the allocation of USAID contracts across congressional districts

Publication Date
1998-June-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Kilby, Christopher
Fleck, Robert K.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between congressional support for foreign aid and the distribution of USAID contract spending across congressional districts within the United States. The extent to which such a relationship matters has become increasingly important in recent years...

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How do political changes influence U.S. bilateral aid allocations? Evidence from panel data

Publication Date
2005-June-30
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fleck, Robert K.
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper examines the role of U.S. domestic politics in the allocation of foreign aid using panel data on aid to 119 countries from 1960 to 1997. Employing proxies for four aid allocation criteria (development concerns, strategic importance, commercial importance...

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Reassessing the role of constituency in congressional voting

Publication Date
2000-August-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fleck, Robert K.
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Poole and Rosenthal (1997) argue that most congressional voting can be understood in terms of a low-dimensional spatial model. This paper uses their model to assess the importance of the two mechanisms that could contribute to the vote-predicting power of...

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Whose 'Nature' is it in? The Navajo Generating Station and the Politics of Nature, Space and Colonialism in Northern Arizona

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Robinson-Welsh, Alicia A.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Page, Arizona is home to the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that provides the power for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and other consumers of electricity in the Southwest. Though the plant is not owned by the Navajo...

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World Bank independence: A model and statistical analysis of U.S. influence

Publication Date
2005-June-30
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fleck, Robert K.
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper develops a model to test whether World Bank lending caters to U.S. interests. We use country-level panel data to examine the geographic distribution of World Bank lending to 110 countries from 1968 to 2002. After controlling for country...

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