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Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have
official development assistance programs, this book argues that no
two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way.
Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid
policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium
long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies,
The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international
influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid
flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations
since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any
one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a
century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this
book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time
patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid
programmes that resulted.
Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have
official development assistance programs, this book argues that no
two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way.
Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid
policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium
long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies,
The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international
influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid
flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations
since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any
one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a
century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this
book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time
patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid
programmes that resulted.
An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are
strikingly negative by any measure. For decades, scholars and
observers have criticized negative media portrayals of Muslims and
Islam. Yet most of these critiques are limited by their focus on
one specific location, a limited time period, or a single outlet.
In Covering Muslims, Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen
present the first systematic, large-scale analysis of American
newspaper coverage of Muslims through comparisons across groups,
time, countries, and topics. The authors demonstrate conclusively
that coverage of Muslims is remarkably negative by any measure.
They show that American newspapers have been consistently negative
across the two-decade period between 1996 and 2016 and that
articles on Muslims are more negative than those touching on groups
as diverse as Catholics, Jews, Hindus, African Americans, Latinos,
Mormons, or atheists. Strikingly, even articles about mundane
topics tend to be negative. The authors suggest that media outlets
both within and outside the United States may contribute to
pervasive Islamophobia and they encourage readers and journalists
to "tone check" the media rather than simply accepting negative
associations with Muslims or other marginalized groups.
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