Foreign Aid, Democracy and Political Stability in Post Conflict Societies

What is the relationship between development aid and political stability in post conflict societies? Although there has been a considerable amount of literature that empirically investigates the relationship between development aid and corruption (Tavares. 2003; Alessina and Weder, 2002; Knack, 2000; Rimmer, 2000; Svensson 1998; Ijaz, 1996), the quality of governance (Knack 2001) ethnic conflict (Esman and Herring, 2003; Herring, 2001) and post conflict economic growth (Collier and Hoeffler, 2004; 2002; Hamburg, 2002; Casella and Eichengreen, 1994) no study of which we are aware has examined the direct effects of both the quantity and timing of development aid on promoting political stability in post conflict societies.