Doctoral Disseration Research in Political Science: Foreign Investment and Political Attitudes toward Social Policy

政治学博士论文研究：外国投资与社会政策的政治态度

• 批准号: 0920217
• 负责人: Stephan Haggard
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0920217&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Disseration; Research; Political; Science

The relationship between globalization and social policy has become an increasing focus of scholarly research. Does globalization increase insecurity? If so, who is most affected? Are governments able to respond by providing adequate social protections? Or does globalization itself limit their capacity to do so? To date, much of this research has focused on government spending and provision; it has not investigated how globalization affects the policy preferences of individuals. This project explores whether and how individuals? exposure to foreign-owned firms causes them to favor more social spending. The research is located in post-socialist Ukraine; it therefore focuses on the attitudes of citizens in a new democracy that is also in transition to a market economy; the research will therefore speak to important political as well as economic issues in this important set of cases. In order to study individual attitudes, this project generates original data, using a survey design that minimizes many of the problems inherent in existing surveys. The survey sites are four smaller cities, two in western Ukraine and two in Eastern Ukraine. In each region, the selected pairs of cities are matched along population and economic variables, but differ drastically in their levels of FDI. This design is particularly strong at approximating the effect of FDI on political attitudes. By comparing individuals within a single country, this research avoids questions about whether country-specific cultural, social or political institutions, rather than FDI, explain observed differences in political attitudes. Furthermore, this design controls for political or geographic variables that influence foreign investors' choice of destination. Thus, this research design allows us to draw more precise causal inferences about the relationship between individuals? exposure to foreign investment and their political preferences over government social policy. This project has broader impacts on long-standing debates in international political economy about the effects of globalization on domestic politics. It makes a unique contribution in assessing the direct effects of foreign investment on citizens, rather than on elites and institutions. In addition, this project measures political attitudes in "regional" populations, which are a significant portion of the population in all post-communist countries, yet tend to be underrepresented in national politics and understudied even in area studies. The original data produced by this research will be of use to other scholars interested in the formation of political attitudes in new democracies, "economic voting" in transition economies, social policy preferences or globalization.

全球化与社会政策之间的关系已成为学术研究的一个日益关注的焦点。全球化会增加不安全感吗？如果是，谁受影响最大？政府是否能够通过提供充分的社会保护来应对？还是全球化本身限制了它们这样做的能力？迄今为止，这方面的研究大多集中在政府支出和提供;它没有调查全球化如何影响个人的政策偏好。 这个项目探讨是否以及如何个人？与外资企业的接触使他们倾向于更多的社会支出。该研究位于后社会主义乌克兰;因此，它侧重于公民在新民主国家的态度，也是在向市场经济过渡;因此，研究将在这一重要的情况下，重要的政治和经济问题。 为了研究个人的态度，该项目使用一种尽量减少现有调查中固有的许多问题的调查设计来产生原始数据。调查地点是四个较小的城市，两个在乌克兰西部，两个在乌克兰东部。在每一区域，选定的成对城市按人口和经济变量进行沿着，但其外国直接投资水平却大不相同。这种设计在近似外国直接投资对政治态度的影响方面特别强大。通过比较一个国家内的个人，这项研究避免了这样的问题，即是否特定国家的文化，社会或政治制度，而不是外国直接投资，解释观察到的政治态度的差异。此外，这一设计控制了影响外国投资者选择目的地的政治或地理变量。因此，这项研究设计使我们能够得出更精确的因果关系推论的个人之间的关系？他们对外国投资的风险以及对政府社会政策的政治偏好。该项目对国际政治经济学中关于全球化对国内政治影响的长期辩论产生了更广泛的影响。它在评估外国投资对公民而不是精英和机构的直接影响方面做出了独特的贡献。此外，该项目还衡量“区域”人口的政治态度，这些人口在所有后共产主义国家的人口中占很大比例，但在国家政治中往往代表不足，甚至在地区研究中也没有得到充分研究。这项研究产生的原始数据将有助于其他学者对新民主国家政治态度的形成、转型经济体的“经济投票”、社会政策偏好或全球化感兴趣。