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Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Andrew P. Cortell
Affiliation:
Lewis & Clark College

Extract

Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries. By Jonathan Crystal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 256p. $35.00.

Jonathan Crystal's primary theoretical objective in this book is to refine our understanding of “how societal actors translate economic interests into policy preferences” (p. 2). In this respect, he is not concerned with explaining why societal actors achieve their preferences, but instead with why societal actors seek one policy rather than another to further their interests. To do so, the author examines U.S. firms' reactions to the increase in foreign direct investment in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

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