Rate My Professor Alexander Slaski

Slaski’s research expertise lies in comparative and international political economy, particularly the politics of foreign direct investment (FDI), investment incentives, and multinational firms in Latin America and the Global South. He explores how international financial flows such as FDI, currency flows, resource rents, portfolio investment, and sovereign debt shape distributional conflicts, demands for regulation, and policymaking in developing democracies. His book manuscript under development, “Investing in Influence: Multinational Firms and Political Power in Developing Economies,” examines coalition formation between multinationals and domestic firms to influence regulatory policy. Utilizing a multi-method toolkit—including machine learning, Bayesian methods, process tracing, game theory, and conjoint surveys—Slaski has published in top journals. Select publications are: “FDI, Pollution, and Public Opinion of Multinational Corporations” (with Celeste Beesley; forthcoming, Review of International Political Economy); “Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets” (International Studies Quarterly, 2021); “Explaining Deference: Why and When Do Policymakers Think FDI Needs Tax Incentives?” (with Sarah Bauerle Danzman; Review of International Political Economy, 2021); “Incentivizing Embedded Investment: Evidence from Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America” (with Sarah Bauerle Danzman; Review of International Organizations, 2021); and “Competing to Lose: FDI, Investment Incentives, and Taxation Capacity under Fiscal Federalism” (Business and Politics, 2025).