Foreign Aid and Voting in International Organizations: Evidence from the IWC∗
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چکیده
I use a unique dispute between major aid donors in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to investigate whether donor nations change their aid giving in response to changes in aid recipients’ voting behavior inside international organizations (IOs). This relationship is difficult to pin down in most IOs because agenda items constantly change and donor coalitions fluctuate with them. I exploit the fact that the IWC has, on the one hand, seen two fixed aid donor blocs opposing each other for three decades over a single issue, but has on the other hand seen rich variation in both membership and voting behavior of aid recipient countries. Using an identification strategy that relates changes in bilateral aid to within-recipient variation in IWC voting-bloc affiliation and fixed cross-sectional variation in donors’ voting bloc, the evidence suggests that Japan rewards joining the pro-whaling bloc, and that countries who recently experienced aid reductions from the three big anti-whaling donors – the U.S., the U.K., and France – are more likely to join the pro-whaling bloc. JEL Codes: D72, F35, F53 ∗I thank the editor (Brian Knight) and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions that have substantially improved the paper. I also thank Gustavo Bobonis, Rob McMillan, Michael Smart, Martin Osborne and Daniel Trefler for insightful comments. Finally, I thank the London office of the IWC for providing the voting data. †University of California, Los Angeles, CCPR, and NBER.
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