Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper describes the pool of significant individual donors to presidential campaigns overtime.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: We analyze the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor’s decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor’s share of other projects in the country increases, and as the donor’s concern for the success of other donors’ projects increases. These hypotheses are supported by cross-country empirical tests, using an index of bureaucratic quality available for aid-recipient nations over the 1982-2001 period.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Abstract: This paper explores the puzzle of foreign aid effectiveness in promoting recipient economic growth. It argues that Western bilateral aid can be effective in this regard, but only when the strategic benefits associated with providing aid are small for donor governments. When the strategic benefits are large, donor governments cannot credibly push recipient governments to engage in politically-costly, but growth-enhancing, economic reform. This argument is supported by evidence showing that Western bilateral aid has become more effective in the post-1986 period when the strategic benefits of providing aid were small for Western governments as compared to the pre-1987 Cold War period. The argument is also supported by evidence showing that Western bilateral aid has become less temporally sticky after 1986, consistent with a new willingness on the part of Western donors to curtail their aid when recipient governments failed to engage in economic reform.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study was designed to examine the role of emotional responses to an Entertainment-Education show about cornea donation, issue involvement, and the three components of the Theory of Planned Behavior, in predicting intentions to pledge cornea donation. The decomposition of effects for the latent constructs confirms that sympathy and empathy responses are the catalyst for issue involvement in the context of organ donation, and issue involvement is an important intermediary in the persuasion process. Issue involvement is also a common causal antecedent of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The findings of this study suggest that adding emotion and involvement in the Theory of Planned Behavior enhances the explanatory power of the theory in predicting intentions, which indicate the possibility of combining the Elaboration Likelihood Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior in the prediction of human behaviors. This study also emphasizes the importance of emotion and issue involvement in identifying the why and how issue of the Entertainment-Education investigations.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study was designed to examine the role of viewers’ issue involvement and the three components of the Theory of Planned Behavior in predicting intentions to sign a cornea donor card. The breakdown of effects for the independent and dependent variables confirms that issue involvement is an important intermediary in the persuasion process. Issue involvement is also a common causal antecedent of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. Compared to non-viewers, viewers exhibited a significantly higher degree of involvement, attitude toward cornea donation, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention to pledge cornea donation. The findings of this study suggest that adding issue involvement in the Theory of Planned Behavior enhances the explanatory power of the theory in predicting intentions, which indicate the possibility of combining the Elaboration Likelihood Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior in the prediction of human behaviors. This study also emphasizes the importance of issue involvement in identifying the why and how issue of the Entertainment-Education investigations.