Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed how to fill these empty promises. This paper proposes a mechanism neglected in prior studies that might play an important role in narrowing human rights decoupling and improving world society model compliance: foreign aid. Using longitudinal analysis on a sample of 120 aid-receiving countries between 1981 and 2011, we find: total aid has a significant effect on reducing human rights decoupling; aid to good governance shows a similar pattern but the impact is much weaker; by contrast, aid to human rights has limited influence.
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Wei, Q., & Swiss, L. (2022). Filling Empty Promises? Foreign Aid and Human Rights Decoupling, 1981-2011. Sociological Quarterly, 63(1), 134–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1828003
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