Lost in translation? Local interests, global actors and inward investment regimes
研究地方政治联盟如何在全球资本与地方利益之间进行调解，基于美英实证分析，揭示外来投资中全球与地方利益的复杂转化过程。
Global economic integration is often viewed as a process orchestrated from 'above' by constituents of an emergent transnational class. Yet such perspectives neglect the autonomous contributions made from 'below' by subnational political coalitions that mediate between global and local interests. In this article we consider the issue of political mobilization at the subnational scale around the material and discursive interests of mobile capital. We highlight the mechanisms that mediate the tension between global and local interests and examine how this tension is articulated at multiple scales. We draw on empirical work in the United States and United Kingdom to illustrate the complex translation between 'global' capital and 'local' political coalitions. We conclude by sketching out the implications of our discussion for research on the role of political coalitions in fostering modernization through inward investment and upon some of the attendant policy implications. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.