The Effect of Closing Civic Space on Aid: Heterogenous Donor Responses to NGO Laws

• In Event: JSS: Rethinking the State in Global Development

Brief Overview

Using dyadic data on aid flows, original global data on NGO laws, and both event study and synthetic control analyses, we consider how bilateral donor response to restrictive NGO laws varies by donors’ relative prioritization of advocacy work.

Authors

• Lucy Right, Duke University

• Jeremy Robert Springman, Duke University

• Erik Wibbels, Duke University