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  • Foreign Direct Investment Hosts and Violent Government Repression of Protests

  • Samaila Oluwatope Adelaiye
  • Journal:
    Business and Politics / Volume 25 / Issue 3 / September 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 May 2023, pp. 315-329
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  • There has been a brewing argument on the effects of economic globalization on the repression of human rights. My argument in this article joins the optimistic perspective on the relationship between the globalizing economy and state repression. I argue that governments consider backlash from investors in their decisions about whether to use repression. Investors, motivated by international human rights norms and a fear of violent conflict, would prefer that governments not introduce brute force into a nonviolent protest. Thus, governments in countries that depend more on foreign direct investment (FDI) should be less likely to use violence against protesters than those that are less dependent on FDI. Using data analysis of protest events and inward FDI stock, I test this argument and find a negative relationship between these two variables.