Survey Research.
I have several survey projects that currently in progress. The first, “The Politics of Multinational Firms and Citizenship in Brazil,” contains a series of survey experiments, supplemented with interviews and the result of focus group discussions, focusing on several locations where foreign investment has become politically salient because of corruption, environmental degradation, or its impact on the local economy. These surveys and case studies, which will be completed in fall of 2017 and winter of 2018, allow me to examine how citizens and politicians interact in conflicts over foreign investment. They also allow me to focus more specifically on Brazil and look at the causal mechanisms that link foreign investment to political behavior and attitudes. contains a series of survey experiments (conducted in Brazil), supplemented with interviews and the results of focus groups, focusing on several locations where foreign investment has become politically salient because of corruption, environmental degradation, or its impact on the local economy.
Moreover, I have worked as the primary survey designer for a major survey of business elites in Brazil. That survey is expected to be completed in December 2017. Helen Milner is the PI and we have collaborators at the University of São Paulo and Fundação Getúlio Vargas. I am also the co-author of an additional set of surveys, funded by the Ostrom workshop at Indiana University Bloomington, that examine the policies of investment promotion agencies and compare those policies to the preferences of multinational corporations. That survey is currently being piloted and is expected to be completed in early 2018
