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SUMMARY:Does Stealing from Foreigners Increase Quality of Life?  How Expro
 priation Affects Domestic Human Rights - Dr Noel P. Johnston\, Blavatnik S
 chool of Government\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Nicole Janz
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, scholars have applied rigorous statistical techniqu
 es to understand the consequences of stealing from foreign investors. The 
 first articles tested how expropriation affects future foreign investment 
 flows\, and subsequent work has analyzed why some geo-polities expropriate
  more than others. Few\, however\, look beyond investment flows. In realit
 y\, political leaders often attest that expropriation is undergone for the
  good of their people (raising employment\, reducing poverty\, etc). Many 
 have questioned the veracity of these claims though. There are often stron
 g economic and political incentives to use seized assets for private alloc
 ation. In this spirit\, scholars argue that outright expropriation is more
  likely to occur in political regimes with fewer political constraints on 
 the executive (Jensen 2008) and greater access to natural resource wealth 
 (Jensen and Johnston 2011). Both are among the political and geographical 
 determinants that may lead to political repression. Thus\, while expropria
 tion may reduce exploitation\, increase autonomy\, and increase economic o
 pportunities in the host country\, it may also be used to further repressi
 ve activities. This paper will be the first in political science to analyz
 e how expropriation affects domestic economic conditions\, across geo-poli
 tical borders\, beyond simply investment flows. It will also be the first 
 to analyze the consequences of expropriation\, for domestic human rights. 
 The current literature is focused on FDI flows\, but this paper argues tha
 t this may not be the only measurable consequence of expropriation\, nor t
 he most insidious.
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