Partners with benefits: when multinational corporations succeed in authoritarian courts

• Main Authors: Chen, Frederick R., Xu, Jian
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Authoritarian Regimes; Government-Business Relations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170881
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Scholars often assume that courts in authoritarian regimes cannot credibly protect foreign investors' interests because these institutions lack judicial independence. In this article, we construct a novel data set on multinational corporations' litigation activities in Chinese courts from...