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Governance and Foreign Investment in China, India, and Taiwan: Credibility, Flexibility, and International Business

Yu Zheng
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Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote economic growth. He examines the relationship between political institutions and FDI through the use of cross-national analysis and case studies of three rapidly growing Asian economies with a focus on the role of microinstitutional "special economic zones" (SEZ).

China's authoritarian system allows for bold, radical economic reform, but China has attracted FDI largely because of its increasingly credible investment environment as well as its central and local governments' efforts to overcome constraints on investment. India's democratic institutions provide more political assurance to foreign investors, but its market became conducive to FDI only when the government adopted more flexible investment policies. Taiwan's democratic transition shifted its balance of policy credibility and flexibility, which was essential for the nation's economic takeoff and sustained growth.

Zheng concludes that a more accurate understanding of the relationship between political institutions and FDI comes from careful analysis of institutional arrangements that entail a trade-off between credibility and flexibility of governance.

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Political Institutions, Governance, and Foreign Direct Investment
  • Chapter 2 Credibility, Flexibility, and International Business: Cross-National Evidence
  • Chapter 3 Incentives and Commitment: The Political Economy of Development Zones in China
  • Chapter 4 Local Accountability under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Development Zones in China
  • Chapter 5 Unbundling the Rule of Law in China: Local Lawmaking Power and Private Investment
  • Chapter 6 The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones in India
  • Chapter 7 Democratic Transition, Institutional Innovation, and FDI in Taiwan
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix on Data
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2014
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-11904-2 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-02957-0 (ebook)
Series
  • Michigan Studies in International Political Economy
Subject
  • Asian Studies
  • Political Science:Comparative Politics
  • Economics:International Economics
  • Political Science:International Relations
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