Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Collins, Tracy

Keywords

China, Economics, Foreign Direct Investment, Politics

Area of Concentration

Chinese Language and Culture

Abstract

There is an overwhelming amount of papers that look at the economic factors that contribute to foreign direct investment, both at a global level and for China itself. This paper examines the contribution of political determinants to China’s changing investment in order to expand this literature. Such factors include the risk of doing business, corruption, and intellectual property right regime. To depict the current political economy of China, this paper traces the political and economic history of China dating back to the Republican era as well as outlines the trends in foreign direct investment since the economic reform. Using macro-level data for China from 2000 to 2013, the empirical modeling in this paper explores how the various political determinants interact with FDI, and what implications this may have for the durability of the emerging intellectual property rights structure and development in China as a whole.

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