2015
DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2015.1065699
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The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment in Authoritarian Regimes

Abstract: iv Existing scholarship does not account for why foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have been increasing to many authoritarian countries in recent decades, with some authoritarian developing countries attracting levels of FDI similar to those in democratic developing countries. This dissertation argues that while authoritarian countries are in general more risky than democratic countries, this risk can be minimized when authoritarian regimes are constrained from both "above" and "below." Authoritarian reg… Show more

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“… 2. See Bastiaens (2016) and Tomashevskiy (2017) on variation across autocracies. …”
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confidence: 99%
“… 2. See Bastiaens (2016) and Tomashevskiy (2017) on variation across autocracies. …”
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confidence: 99%
“…We first advance the understanding of the determinants of FDI inflows: this literature has mainly focused on the macroeconomic conditions and the institutional framework of the host country. Even studies specifically focusing on dictatorships adopt a strictly institutional perspective (Gehlbach and Keefer, 2012;Bastiaens, 2016;Wright and Zhu, 2018). We extend this literature toward the traits of leaders, and thereby contribute to explaining FDI inflows when institutional constraints are weak.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The evidence regarding authoritarian institutions is more mixed. Bastiaens (2016) finds that signatories of bilateral investment treaties attract more FDIs when they allow for some degree of political participation. However, Gehlbach and Keefer (2012) find that institutionalized ruling parties with the ability to select leaders as well as competitively elected legislatures have no impact on FDI inflows, although they are significant predictors of expropriation risk and domestic investment.…”
Section: Determinants Of Fdi Inflowsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, most of the empirical studies are supportive to the positive relationship between BITs and FDI (Bastiaens, 2016;Berger et al, 2011;Büthe and Milner, 2008;Grosse and Trevino, 2005;Jandhyala et al, 2011;Kerner, 2009;Neumayer and Spess, 2005;Rosendorff and Shin, 2012;Salacuse and Sullivan, 2005). This variable is expected to hold a positive sign.…”
Section: The Signing Of Bilateral Investment Treaties (Bits)mentioning
confidence: 94%
“…There are different measures of FDI in the literature, the two most used is the net FDI inflows as a percentage of GDP (Ali et al, 2010;Asiedu and Lien, 2011;Bastiaens, 2016;Biglaiser and DeRouen, 2006;Biglaiser and Staats, 2010;Blanton and Blanton, 2006Büthe and Milner, 2008;Choi and Samy, 2008;Jensen, [118] 2003; Melo and Quinn, 2015;Méon and Sekkat, 2005;Rodríguez-Pose and Cols, 2017;Rosendorff and Shin, 2012;Staats and Biglaiser, 2012) and the natural log of net FDI inflows (Blanton and Blanton, 2012;Jakobsen and de Soysa, 2006;Mengistu and Adhikary, 2011;Moon, 2015;Salacuse and Sullivan, 2005;Tintin, 2013;Uddin et al, 2019). Li (2009b) notes that the net FDI inflows as a percentage of GDP and net FDI inflows are not conceptually equivalent.…”
Section: Dependent Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%