Politics and Foreign Direct Investment

Quan Li author Nathan Jensen author Glen Biglaiser author Edmund Malesky author Pablo Pinto author Santiago Pinto author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Michigan Press

Published:30th Sep '12

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For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace, prosperity, and democracy in an increasingly globalized market. More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct investment has raised questions about its impact upon local economies and politics. Here, seven scholars bring together their wide-ranging expertise to investigate the factors that determine the attractiveness of a locale to investors and the extent of their political power. Multinational corporations prefer to invest where legal and political institutions support the rule of law, protections for property rights, and democratic processes. Corporate influence on local institutions, in turn, depends upon the relative power of other players and the types of policies at issue.

ISBN: 9780472051762

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 351g

224 pages