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Politics and Foreign Direct Investment /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jensen, Nathan M. (Nathan Michael), 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : multinational corporations and governments -- Democracy and the political risk of expropriation for international business -- Institutional determinants of foreign direct investment in the developing world -- Partisan governments and the distributive effects of foreign direct investment -- Political institutions and the effectiveness of multinational lobbying -- Conclusion. 
520 |a 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. 
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