Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/254000 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Columbia FDI Perspectives No. 166
Publisher: 
Columbia University, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), New York, NY
Abstract: 
Democratic governments tie their hands particularly tightly by concluding more and stricter international investment agreements than autocratic governments, even though the domestic institutional framework in democracies alone offers protection for foreign investors. This Perspective argues that political scientists and economists are currently not able to explain this puzzle convincingly.
Document Type: 
Research Report

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