Book contents
- The Perils of International Capital
- The Perils of International Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Politics of International Capital
- 2 International Capital and Authoritarian Survival
- 3 Foreign Rents and Rule
- 4 Aiding Repression
- 5 Remittances and Autocratic Power
- 6 Foreign Direct Investment in Militarism
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
2 - International Capital and Authoritarian Survival
A Descriptive Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2019
- The Perils of International Capital
- The Perils of International Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Politics of International Capital
- 2 International Capital and Authoritarian Survival
- 3 Foreign Rents and Rule
- 4 Aiding Repression
- 5 Remittances and Autocratic Power
- 6 Foreign Direct Investment in Militarism
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter has two objectives. First, I define and describe the spatial and temporal variation in international capital and authoritarian politics. The former comprises the book’s key independent variable, while the latter is the book’s main dependent variable. Second, I illustrate the existence of an association between international capital and political survival in autocracies in the raw data. Such an examination is useful as it illustrates the book’s central empirical prediction without having to “finesse” the data to establish a statistical relationship between international capital and authoritarian politics. These associations provide motivation for further theoretical and empirical inquiry. To be clear, I do not claim a causal relationship between international capital and authoritarian politics in this chapter. Causal evaluations are the focus of Chapters 4 to 6.
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- The Perils of International Capital , pp. 24 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019