Aid Modalities and the Arts of Government

Abstract

What is the impact of aid on forms of government in societies where development aid makes up large parts of the government budget? This chapter seeks to map out some conceptual tools for thinking about the impact of aid on state formation. It draws primarily on an understanding of state formation that has been debated within historical sociology (Abrams, 1988, Corrigan and Sayers, 1985, Steinmetz, 1999, Tilly, 1992), one that stresses the internal social, political, and cultural dynamic of constituting “stateness” (e.g., Nettl, 1968). This chapter attempts to contribute to this discussion within two areas. One the one hand, it tries to extend the analysis to take external, or contextual factors more fully into account (the focus of work on state formation within the international relations tradition). On the other hand, it tries to explicate fruitful links between the understanding of state formation within historical sociology and those emerging within the literature on governmentality (e.g., Dean, 1999). In this sense, this chapter is a contribution to the discussion about how aid influences modes of government in what are commonly termed aid-dependent societies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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