Replication data for: Comparing the Foreign Aid Policies of Presidents Bush and Obama. Social Science Quarterly. Volume 93, Issue 5, pages 1202–1217, December 2012

Objectives We compare the rhetoric and actual foreign economic aid disbursements of the Bush and Obama Administrations. Methods We use U.S. foreign aid data from 2001 to 2013 (expected) to test our propositions. Results Our analyses suggest strong similarities but also key differences between presidencies. First, both presidents used aid to encourage development and democracy but also ignored the human rights policies of recipient countries. We actually find human rights abuse to be positively correlated with aid receipts, even after controlling for wealth and regime type; changes in rights policies have no effect in data for either administration. Second, overall aid disbursements have not increased under President Obama in real or percentage terms, again despite campaign and inaugural promises to do otherwise. Finally, our analyses confirm the proposition that the Bush Administration favored those countries that supported the war in Iraq—the “Coalition of the Willing”—by providing them with substantially larger aid allocations than would otherwise be predicted. Conclusions The Obama Administration has seemingly reversed the unstated policy of aid payments for U.S. partnership by penalizing Coalition members with aid allocations far below the rates predicted for other, similar countries.研究目标：我们旨在对比布什与奥巴马政府的对外经济援助说辞与实际拨付情况。 研究方法：我们采用2001至2013年（预计）的美国对外援助数据对研究命题进行检验。 研究结果：我们的分析显示，两届政府的援助政策既存在高度相似性，也存在关键差异。第一，两位总统均借助援助推动受援国的发展与民主建设，但同时也无视受援国的人权政策；我们的研究甚至发现，即便在控制了财富与政权类型变量后，人权虐待状况与援助获取量仍呈正相关，且两届政府的数据均显示人权政策变动未对援助分配产生任何影响。第二，无论以实际价值还是占比计算，奥巴马任内的对外援助拨付总额均未出现增长，尽管其竞选与就职演说曾承诺提升援助规模。第三，我们的分析验证了相关命题：布什政府曾向支持伊拉克战争的“意愿联盟（Coalition of the Willing）”成员国提供远超预期额度的援助拨款，体现出对该联盟国家的偏袒。 研究结论：奥巴马政府似乎逆转了此前以援助换取美国伙伴关系的默认政策，对“意愿联盟”成员国的援助拨款远低于其他同类国家的预期标准。