Foreign Policy Preferences in Ukraine: Trade and Ethnolinguistic Identity

Beesley, Celeste

doi:10.1093/isq/sqz084

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“…political behavior, such as ideology and liberal democratic norms (Chu 2021); cultural similarity (Spilker, Bernauer, and Umaña 2016); foreign side-taking and interventions (Walter et al 2018;Bush and Prather 2020); ethno-linguistic divisions (Beesley 2020); as well as transnational, migrant, and social networks (Pandya and Leblang 2017;Prather 2020;Zeitz and Leblang 2021).…”

Section: Study #3: Digital Services Taxmentioning

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Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?

Arel‐Bundock

Blais

2023

International Studies Quarterly

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The international tax system is a pillar of the post-war economic order, but it faces major challenges with the rise of global value chains, digitalization, and tax avoidance. Debates over international tax reform usually occur within a small epistemic community of experts and technocrats. In this article, we step outside this restricted circle to assess the sources of bottom-up legitimacy and support for the rules that govern where multinationals must report profits and which governments are entitled to tax those profits. We conduct survey experiments in Brazil, France, and the United States to assess mass attitudes toward the allocation of the tax base across countries. We find that people’s views clash with the core principles of the current regime, but are aligned with reform proposals that allocate more taxing rights to market jurisdictions. These findings are strikingly consistent across three countries and three distinct studies. At first glance, the consistency of attitudes across countries could spell good things for international cooperation in this arena. However, we also find a significant level of “home bias” in the public’s views on tax allocation. These results shed new light on the legitimacy of tax reform and on the prospects for cooperation in a key area of international economic relations.

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Section: Study #3: Digital Services Taxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?

Arel‐Bundock

Blais

2023

International Studies Quarterly

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“…Many studies on foreign policy and geopolitical preferences in Ukraine find a rather strong effect of language and selfreported national identification (e.g., Pirie, 1996;Kulyk, 2011;Pop-Eleches & Robertson, 2018), with Russian(s) typically being associated with weaker pro-Western (or pro-Ukraine) policy preferences. 4 In fact, supranational identifications, which are more seldom controlled for, appear to "cannibalize" on the effects of national identity (Gentile, 2020), while economic considerations such as regional trade patterns encourage pragmatic preferences among both Russians and Ukrainians (Beesley, 2020).…”

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A Least Expected Ally?

Torres-Adán

Gentile

2022

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, some historical legacies of the communist system still influence individual political attitudes. This article explores how historical legacies influence individual political and geopolitical preferences in three Ukrainian cities. We focus on the effects of parental and individual CPSU membership over individual support for EU/NATO membership, on perceptions of the Soviet period for Ukraine, and on the perceived legitimacy of the 11 May 2014 “Donetsk People’s Republic” independence referendum. Using survey data collected in Dnipro and Kharkiv in 2018, and in Mariupol in 2020, we show that (individual or parental) CPSU affiliation is positively correlated with pro-Western attitudes, indicating that many former members of the CPSU and their descendants have reoriented their geopolitical allegiances from East to West. Or, alternatively, that they are relatively politically adaptive and that their allegiance to communism wasn’t fully solid in the first place.

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“…Naturally, exceptions exist; some parties in Eastern Europe have strong ties with Russia based on linguistic or geographic proximity. Beesley (2020) shows that citizens favour foreign relations with countries based on both ethnolinguistic identity and geographic proximity to trade partners, based on survey data among Ukrainians. Second, I include Distance to Kiev as a control variable, measured as the distance in (thousands of) kilometres between MEPs’ home capitals and the capital of Ukraine.…”

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Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers

Norrevik

2021

European Union Politics

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What is the role of economic interdependence with foreign powers when legislators vote on foreign policies? Foreign aid and trade are among the European Union’s most important foreign policy instruments, over which the European Parliament has veto power. Yet, few studies address foreign economic policy voting in European Parliament scholarship. This study presents a new theoretical model about economic interdependence and foreign policy positioning in the European Parliament. I argue that economic interdependence with major foreign powers is associated with legislators’ foreign policy positions. Analysing European Parliament votes concerning aid and trade with Ukraine, I show a statistical association between Members of the European Parliaments with high levels of Russian Foreign Direct Investment in their electoral districts and voting against aid and trade with Ukraine (supporting the pro-Russian policy). These findings offer new insights on Members of the European Parliaments’ position-taking in foreign economic policy decisions that have global economic and political ramifications.

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Foreign Policy Preferences in Ukraine: Trade and Ethnolinguistic Identity

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Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?

Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?

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Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers

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