ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

尽管有大量文献研究了条约承诺与实践之间的人权脱钩，但很少有研究涉及如何填补这些空洞的承诺。本文提出了一种在先前研究中被忽视的机制，它可能在缩小人权脱钩和提高世界社会模式合规性方面发挥重要作用：对外援助。通过对 1981 年至 2011 年间 120 个受援国的样本进行纵向分析，我们发现：总援助对减少人权脱钩有显着影响；对善政的援助表现出类似的模式，但影响要小得多；相比之下，对人权的援助影响有限。