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  • This study examines the impact of foreign direct investment on social welfare spending across countries. In understanding the relationship between economic globalization and welfare states, my dissertation is particularly interested in how one of the important aspects of globalization, FDI, a affect both demand- and supply-side functions of social welfare provisions. It shows that since the late twentieth century, FDI has been a major cause of the “globalization dilemma," in which that governments face increased demand for social welfare and decreased capabilities to supply it. FDI has conflicting influences on welfare states. On the one hand, FDI works for welfare states as ensuing economic insecurity increases demand for social welfare. At the same time, however, FDI works against welfare states because governments will experience reductions in capital taxation due to competition among themselves to attract and retain production capitals. I further argue that there is an interesting consequence of this dilemma. Given the conflicting influences of FDI, social welfare provisions requires governments to secure additional revenues. Governments will address this concern through a strategy that is both effective and politically less expensive: an increased reliance on indirect taxation. As indirect taxes are notoriously regressive, the very efforts to supply social welfare provisions goes against the principle of welfare states: the redistribution of income from the rich to the poor. (xsd:string)
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