Helen V. Milner's research while affiliated with Princeton University and other places

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Publications (3)

Globalization and the Political Benefits of the Informal Economy
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  • Dec 2015
The informal sector in the globalizing economy relieves policymakers from immediate pressures to generate unskilled jobs in the formal sector, provides formal (and costly) benefits and protection to informal workers, and adopts drastic labor reforms at the national level that would keep labor costs low. The demand for informal work, which is likely...
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The Political Economy of Inward FDI: Opposition to Chinese Mergers and Acquisitions
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  • Jan 2015
A great deal of political economy scholarship has focused on how countries can attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and the effects of FDI on growth and political stability. A related topic that has received almost no attention, however, is that of divergent political reactions to inflows of FDI in the countries receiving investments. This is a...
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Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics: An Introduction
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  • Feb 2013
Given the recognition of the seriousness of climate change and other forms of environmental challenges, a growing number of political scientists are working in the environmental area. We have a substantial body of research examining local, regional, and global environmental issues. It is our sense that time is ripe for the field of international an...
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... for employment, and some even deem it as an "engine of innovation" (Kraemer-Mbula and Wunsch-Vincent, 2016; see also Milner and Rudra, 2015), it can pose "serious social, economic, cultural and political challenges across the world" (Elgin and Oztunali, 2012:2). For example, the forgone tax revenue can greatly hamper the ability of governments to provide public services. ...
Reference: A Global Analysis of Financial Crises and the Growth of Informal Economic Activity
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... With China's gradual economic revolution and international participation, its outward direct investment policy faced several revolutionary changes that reflect China's enduring pursuit of national interest in the past few decades (Buckley et al., 2007;Voss, 2011). This policy has a massive impact on China's outward direct investment (Tingley et al., 2015). The China's outward direct investment policy was passed through different stages. ...
Reference: Environmental Effects of China’s Overseas Direct Investment in South Asia
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... The paper contributes to the academic and policy literature in several ways. First, the paper contributes to the emerging subfield of comparative climate politics (Andersen, 2019;Harrison & Sundstrom, 2010;Hughes and Urpelainen, 2015;Lipscy, 2018;Mildenberger, 2020;Wood et al., 2019)an under-researched area (Cao et al., 2014;Keohane, 2015). While important research has focused on the politics of fossil fuel taxation in particular jurisdictions (e.g., Andersen, 2019;Harrison, 2012;Rabe, 2010Rabe, , 2018, this paper provides a general theoretical framework. ...
Reference: Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation
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