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  • Due to the dramatic expansion of global production chains over the past decades, mass attitudes towards inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) have become a critical underpinning of the global economic order. And yet, we still know remarkably little about what drives public opinion towards IFDI. The few existing studies on the topic have focused on the role of individuals’ selfinterest, arguing that IFDI preferences are primarily determined by the material individual consequences of more or less IFDI. However, there are good reasons to believe that it remains difficult for individuals to actually know the personal economic implications of FDI inflows. Instead, this article suggests that IFDI preferences are driven as much by individuals’ broader economic beliefs and their perceptions of the economic meaning and consequences of IFDI as they depend on IFDI’s actual material effects. To test this argument empirically, I take advantage of the rather radical change in the portrayal of IFDI in predominant public economic discourses in the late twentieth century. Building on the insights from socialization research, I theorize that individuals who passed their formative years in a time period in which the narrative of economic statism was prevalent (roughly the time-period between 1960s-1980s) hold more negative views of inward FDI than other respondents, independently from their economic status, level of education or nationalist feelings and taking various alternative channels through which age can affect IFDI attitudes into account. I first analyze these predictions in two waves of a large encompassing cross-national survey conducted by ISSP, finding strong evidence of an intergenerational difference in public opinion towards IFDI, which closely corresponds to the specific theoretical predictions of the socialization argument. I then proceed to investigate these findings further through an analysis of the responses to one of the most fine-grained surveys on IFDI attitudes to date, which was specifically designed for this study and conducted in the United Kingdom. The results from a causal mediation analysis strongly corroborate the socialization hypothesis. (xsd:string)
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