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Where FDI goes in decentralized authoritarian countries : the politics of Taiwanese site selection for investment in mainland China / Kelan Lu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lu, Kelan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Chinese--Taiwan.
- Investments, Chinese.
- China--Foreign economic relations--Taiwan.
- China.
- Taiwan--Foreign economic relations--China.
- Taiwan.
- China--Economic policy--2000-.
- Taiwan--Economic policy--1975-.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Other Title:
- Where Foreign Direct Investment goes in decentralized authoritarian countries : the politics of Taiwanese site selection for investment in mainland China
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Among all the decentralized authoritarian countries, China is distinctive not only because of its emergence as one of the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) recipient countries with one of the highest levels of fiscal decentralization, but also because of the combination of its fiscal decentralization and the cadre promotion system as incentive institutions for attracting FDI inflows. China is an important case to empirically investigate the impact of fiscal autonomy on adversarial investment because it has become the largest investment destination of its long-term adversary, Taiwan, with Taiwanese FDI being among the largest FDI in mainland China. Given the special role played by local Chinese governments in attracting and hosting Taiwanese FDI, it is important to study the differences between where Taiwanese FDI and other FDI goes. Given the uniqueness of the China case and that of Taiwanese investment in mainland China, this book explores the following questions. What determines where FDI goes in authoritarian countries like China? Fiscal decentralization has been argued to be a driving force of skyrocketing FDI inflows in China due to its impact on local governments' incentives. However, is the impact of fiscal autonomy on FDI monolithic with the dynamically changing levels of FDI inflows at the lower administrative levels in China, especially with its special cadre management system? Does the impact of fiscal decentralization on FDI strengthen or weaken or stay the same when attracting FDI inflows from adversarial states? And what are the implications of such adversarial investment--especially as it diffuses from coastal cities to the interior regions, or from key cities to peripheral regions--of decentralized authoritarian countries targeted by this investment?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171 -190) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472221158
- 0472221159
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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