This paper investigates the effect of divided government on the share of official development assistance (ODA) that is given multilaterally. It uses intra-governmental fragmentation to capture divided government in parliamentary systems, developing two rival hypotheses with respect to the effect...

Generally speaking, the effects of international political party assistance are viewed negatively, or at least controversially. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and political science party research. They...