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Gulf-funding of British universities and the focus on human development
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Middle East law and governance, 2015, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 25–49
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DRAEGE, Jonas Bergan, LESTRA, Martin Neil, Gulf-funding of British universities and the focus on human development, Middle East law and governance, 2015, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 25–49 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38444
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We use quantitative content analysis to compare the academic publications and events of Gulf-funded Middle East research institutions in the uk to those that have not received such funding from a Middle Eastern donor. Our results provide some support for hypotheses about funding leading to a bias in the selection of research topics. We show that Gulf-funding of uk Middle East Studies research institutions is associated with less focus on democracy and human rights than non-funded comparable institutions. Moreover, we show that Gulf-funded institutions focus more on their donor countries than do non Gulf-funded institutions, but that they give more attention to issues of education and youth unemployment than issues of democracy, human rights, and gender equality when writing about their donor countries.