How much is a seat on the Security Council worth? Foreign aid and bribery at the United Nations

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 905-930

  Kuziemko, Ilyana ^a   Werker, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL AID; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; UNITED NATIONS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750947130     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507155     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alesina, Alberto, and David Dollar. 2000. "Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?" J. Econ. Growth 5 (March): 33-63.
2. Bailey, Sydney D., and Sam Daws. 1998. The Procedure of the U.N. Security Council. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon.
3. BBC. 2005. "G8 Leaders Agree $50bn Aid Boost." 8 July 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4662297.stm.
4. Bennis, Phyllis. 1996. Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's U.N. New York: Olive Branch Press.
5. Burnside, Craig, and David Dollar. 2000. "Aid, Policies, and Growth." A.E.R. 90 (September): 847-68.
6. Carsey, Thomas M., and Barry Rundquist. 1999. "The Reciprocal Relationship between State Defense Interest and Committee Representation in Congress." Public Choice 99 (June): 455-63.
7. Easterly, William. 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.
8. Ferejohn, John A. 1974. Pork Barrel Politics: Rivers and Harbors Legislation. Stanford, CA. Stanford Univ. Press.
9. Gleditsch, Nils Petter, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg, and Håvard Strand. 2002. "Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset."J. Peace Res. 39 (September): 615-37.
10. Groseclose, Tim, and James M. Snyder Jr. 1996. "Buying Supermajorities." American Polit. Sci. Rev. 90 (June): 303-15.
11. Groseclose, Tim, and Charles Stewart III. 1998. "The Value of Committee Seats in the House, 1947-91." American J. Polit. Sci. 42 (April): 453-74.
12. Heaton, Paul. 2006. "Oil for What? Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts and the U.N. Security Council." Manuscript, Univ. Chicago, Dept. Econ.
13. Hsieh, Chang-Tai, and Enrico Moretti. 2006. "Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program." Q.J.E. 121 (November).
14. Kegley, Charles W., Jr., and Steven W. Hook. 1991. "U.S. Foreign Aid and U.N. Voting: Did Reagan's Linkage Strategy Buy Deference or Defiance?" Internat. Studies Q. 35 (September): 295-312.
15. Levitt, Steven D., and James M. Snyder Jr. 1997. "The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes." JPE. 105 (February): 30-53.
16. Malone, David M. 2000. "Eyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the U.N. Security Council." Global Governance 6 (January-March): 3-24.
17. Marshall, Monty G., and Keith Jaggers. 2002. Polity IV Dataset. Computer file, version p4v2002. College Park: Univ. Maryland, Center Internat. Development and Conflict Management.
18. Meernik, James, Eric L. Krueger, and Steven C. Poe. 1998 "Testing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid during and after the Cold War." J. Politics 60 (February): 63-85.
19. O'Neill, Barry. 1996. "Power and Satisfaction in the United Nations Security Council." J. Conflict Resolution 40 (June): 219-37.
20. Rai, Kul B. 1980. "Foreign Aid and Voting in the U.N. General Assembly, 1967-1976." J. Peace Res. 17 (3): 269-77.
21. Ray, Bruce A. 1981. "Military Committee Membership in the House of Representatives and the Allocation of Defense Department Outlays." Western Polit. Q. 34 (June): 222-34.
22. Renfrew, Barry. 2003. "France Battles U.S. to Line Up U.N. Votes." Associated Press (March 1). http://www.post-gazette.com/ world/20030301franceworld2p2.asp.
23. Riker, William H. 1962. The Theory of Political Coalitions. New Haven, CT. Yale Univ. Press.
24. Rundquist, Barry S., and Thomas M. Carsey. 2002. Gongress and Defense Spending: The Distributive Politics of Military Procurement. Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press.
25. Rundquist, Barry, Jeong-Hwa Lee, and Jungho Rhee. 1996. "The Distributive Politics of Cold War Defense Spending: Some State Level Evidence." Legislative Studies Q. 21 (2): 265-81.
26. Rundquist, Barry, Jungho Rhee, Jeong-Hwa Lee, and Sharon E. Fox. 1997. "Modeling State Representation on Defense Committees in Congress, 1959-1989." American Politics Q. 25 (1): 35-55.
27. Shepsle, Kenneth A. 1974. "On the Size of Winning Coalitions." American Polit. Sci. Rev. 68 (June): 505-18.
28. Stewart, Charles, III, and Tim Groseclose. 1999. "The Value of Committee Seats in the United States Senate, 1947-91." American J. Polit. Sci. 43 (July): 963-73.
29. Stratmann, Thomas. 1992. "The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting." A.E.R. 82 (December): 1162-76.
30. Tamura, Fumiko, and Takuma Kunieda. 2005. "Vote-Buying Behavior in the Security Council: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Foreign Aid." Manuscript, Brown Univ., Dept. Econ.
31. U.S. Congress. 2001. Making Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2002, and for Other Purposes. 107th Cong., 1st sess. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. http://pur1.access.gpo.gov/ GPO/LPS17253.
32. U.S. Department of State. 2003. United States Participation in the United Nations: A Report by the Secretary of State to the Congress for the Year 2002. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
33. Wang, T. Y. 1999. "U.S. Foreign Aid and U.N. Voting: An Analysis of Important Issues." Internat. Studies Q. 43 (March): 199-210.
34. Wittkopf, Eugene R. 1973. "Foreign Aid and United Nations Votes: A Comparative Study." American Polit. Sci. Rev. 67 (September): 868-88.