How aid targets votes: The impact of electoral incentives on foreign aid distribution

World Politics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 293-330

  Jablonski, Ryan S ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; CORRUPTION; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL AID; POLITICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

KENYA;

EID: 84897376506     PISSN: 00438871     EISSN: 10863338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043887114000045     Document Type: Article

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