Paul Alexander Haslam
Biographic Data
| ID | 811405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Alexander Haslam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Haslam |
| SIGNATURE | HASLAM P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3336-425X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Activist Networks, Territory, and the Spatial Diffusion of Mining Conflicts
This article examines how activist networks contribute to the spatial diffusion of mining conflicts. We conduct a spatial econometric analysis of 590 geolocated mining properties in five countries of Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru), using the univariate local joint count test and the spatial autoregressive probit method. Empirically, the analysis provides strong and generalizable evidence for the spatial diffusion of co…
The social determinants of CSR practice: Between headquarters policy and local mobilization
Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector
Firms should be considered as actors that potentially mediate between social movement pressures and policy outcomes. This article shows that at the mining project level, social mobilization can generate important changes in corporate practices toward nearby communities, and that these practices can undermine the cohesion of social movement coalitions advocating for regulatory intervention or reform, thus limiting their ability to make compelling …
Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation
The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining
States and Firms Co-producing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Developing World
This article examines policy options that are co-produced by both states and firms, with the purpose of regulating an area of public policy and the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by companies. The contributions of this article are twofold. First, it creates a typology of the co-production of corporate social responsibility, adding “delegated,” “brokered,” and “partnership” as intermediate categories between the natural end poin…
Beyond voluntary: State–firm bargaining over corporate social responsibilities in mining
This paper investigates how and why governments use both regulatory and extra-juridical pressures to influence what are normally considered to be the voluntary corporate social responsibility contributions of mining firms to local social and economic development that go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements. Based on a modified version of the obsolescing bargain model, the paper argues that governments opt to co-produce corporate social …
The Two Sides of Pascua Lama: Social Protest, Institutional Responses, and Feedback Loops
The article shows that the ability of activists to achieve outcomes that they value is fundamentally conditioned by how bureaucracies implement policies and regulations. Relatively minor changes to bureaucratic policies, regulatory enforcement, or judicial oversight – in a context of rule of law and institutional capacity to implement – can generate new opportunities and feedback loops that increase the influence of social movements over extracti…
Do Canadian Mining Firms Behave Worse Than Other Companies? Quantitative Evidence from Latin America
The effects of Canadian mining companies on local communities abroad is an increasingly contentious topic as activists and academics, citing case studies, have drawn attention to alleged problems. Despite the policy relevance of this issue, there have been no generalizable analyses of whether mining companies headquartered in Canada behave differently from mining firms headquartered in other countries. This paper conducts the first rigorous stati…
Overcoming the Resource Curse: Reform and the Rentier State in Chile and Argentina, 1973-2000
This article examines the possibility of overcoming the resource curse through case studies of the appropriation and use of mining rents derived from public-private joint ventures in Argentina and Chile in the period 1973-2000. In particular, it examines how two similar cases of sectoral liberalization resulted in divergent outcomes: the deployment of rent-appropriation strategies around multinational corporations in Argentina and an innovative a…
The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America ‐ by Bebbington, Anthony and Bury, Jeffrey
Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury (eds.) (2013) Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America, University of Texas Press ( Austin, TX), xiii + 361 pp. $40.00 hbk. Subterranean Struggles, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury is the culmination of many years of collaboration between researchers and activists on the issue of mine-community conflicts. It is no exaggeration to say that Bebbington, Bury, and ot…
Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change
The Evolution of the Foreign Direct Investment Regime in the Americas
The purpose of this article is to describe the international regime governing foreign direct investment in the Americas and assess its implications for regional economic governance. The article develops a novel methodology to map the multi-layered patchwork of investment agreements according to the level of investment protection offered by each agreement. The mapping exercise demonstrates the existence of two distinct legalization projects in the…
Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Constructivist Regime? Evidence from Latin America
The paper argues that the emerging norms on corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be theorised as a constructivist regime, specifically a subset of private authority regimes—a transnational private legitimacy regime. The purpose of this regime is the transnational legitimation of globalised private accumulation strategies. It hypothesises that CSR acts as a framework of principles, norms and practices that enables communication, negotiation a…
A ‘Flexibility for Development’ Index: Can International Investment Agreements be Compared Quantitatively
The firm rules: Multinational corporations, policy space and neoliberalism
This paper examines the constraints on state policy autonomy engendered by globalisation. It evaluates the three major competing hypotheses on the decline in the state's inability to bargain with multinational corporations for the purpose of promoting economic development in light of two case studies of state – firm bargaining. The case studies are drawn from the mining sectors in Argentina and Chile in the late 1990s
BITing Back: Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Struggle to Define an Investment Regime for the Americas
This paper examines the consequences of the breakdown of talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the generalized shift from multilateralism to bilateralism in the Americas for the region’s emerging foreign investment regime. The paper argues that multilateral processes have historically benefited Latin American countries when their interests have diverged from those of the US. In terms of investment, the foreign investment regime …
Globalization and Effective Sovereignty: A Theoretical Approach to the State in International Political Economy
International relations theory has traditionally sought to conceptualize state sovereignty as supreme legitimate authority within a territory and the international system as consisting of relations between functionally similar sovereign units. In a world characterized by an increasingly dense web of economic relationships, however, the trite observation that the right of exit confers ultimate sovereignty, or that states (if they choose) can defy …
The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data
The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining
The Two Sides of Pascua Lama: Social Protest, Institutional Responses, and Feedback Loops
The article shows that the ability of activists to achieve outcomes that they value is fundamentally conditioned by how bureaucracies implement policies and regulations. Relatively minor changes to bureaucratic policies, regulatory enforcement, or judicial oversight – in a context of rule of law and institutional capacity to implement – can generate new opportunities and feedback loops that increase the influence of social movements over extracti…
Beyond voluntary: State–firm bargaining over corporate social responsibilities in mining
This paper investigates how and why governments use both regulatory and extra-juridical pressures to influence what are normally considered to be the voluntary corporate social responsibility contributions of mining firms to local social and economic development that go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements. Based on a modified version of the obsolescing bargain model, the paper argues that governments opt to co-produce corporate social …
Do Canadian Mining Firms Behave Worse Than Other Companies? Quantitative Evidence from Latin America
The effects of Canadian mining companies on local communities abroad is an increasingly contentious topic as activists and academics, citing case studies, have drawn attention to alleged problems. Despite the policy relevance of this issue, there have been no generalizable analyses of whether mining companies headquartered in Canada behave differently from mining firms headquartered in other countries. This paper conducts the first rigorous stati…
Overcoming the Resource Curse: Reform and the Rentier State in Chile and Argentina, 1973-2000
This article examines the possibility of overcoming the resource curse through case studies of the appropriation and use of mining rents derived from public-private joint ventures in Argentina and Chile in the period 1973-2000. In particular, it examines how two similar cases of sectoral liberalization resulted in divergent outcomes: the deployment of rent-appropriation strategies around multinational corporations in Argentina and an innovative a…
Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation
Globalization and Effective Sovereignty: A Theoretical Approach to the State in International Political Economy
International relations theory has traditionally sought to conceptualize state sovereignty as supreme legitimate authority within a territory and the international system as consisting of relations between functionally similar sovereign units. In a world characterized by an increasingly dense web of economic relationships, however, the trite observation that the right of exit confers ultimate sovereignty, or that states (if they choose) can defy …
Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector
Firms should be considered as actors that potentially mediate between social movement pressures and policy outcomes. This article shows that at the mining project level, social mobilization can generate important changes in corporate practices toward nearby communities, and that these practices can undermine the cohesion of social movement coalitions advocating for regulatory intervention or reform, thus limiting their ability to make compelling …
The firm rules: Multinational corporations, policy space and neoliberalism
This paper examines the constraints on state policy autonomy engendered by globalisation. It evaluates the three major competing hypotheses on the decline in the state's inability to bargain with multinational corporations for the purpose of promoting economic development in light of two case studies of state – firm bargaining. The case studies are drawn from the mining sectors in Argentina and Chile in the late 1990s
A ‘Flexibility for Development’ Index: Can International Investment Agreements be Compared Quantitatively
BITing Back: Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Struggle to Define an Investment Regime for the Americas
This paper examines the consequences of the breakdown of talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the generalized shift from multilateralism to bilateralism in the Americas for the region’s emerging foreign investment regime. The paper argues that multilateral processes have historically benefited Latin American countries when their interests have diverged from those of the US. In terms of investment, the foreign investment regime …
Globalization and Effective Sovereignty: A Theoretical Approach to the State in International Political Economy
International relations theory has traditionally sought to conceptualize state sovereignty as supreme legitimate authority within a territory and the international system as consisting of relations between functionally similar sovereign units. In a world characterized by an increasingly dense web of economic relationships, however, the trite observation that the right of exit confers ultimate sovereignty, or that states (if they choose) can defy …
BITing Back: Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Struggle to Define an Investment Regime for the Americas
This paper examines the consequences of the breakdown of talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the generalized shift from multilateralism to bilateralism in the Americas for the region’s emerging foreign investment regime. The paper argues that multilateral processes have historically benefited Latin American countries when their interests have diverged from those of the US. In terms of investment, the foreign investment regime …
Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Constructivist Regime? Evidence from Latin America
The paper argues that the emerging norms on corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be theorised as a constructivist regime, specifically a subset of private authority regimes—a transnational private legitimacy regime. The purpose of this regime is the transnational legitimation of globalised private accumulation strategies. It hypothesises that CSR acts as a framework of principles, norms and practices that enables communication, negotiation a…
A ‘Flexibility for Development’ Index: Can International Investment Agreements be Compared Quantitatively
The firm rules: Multinational corporations, policy space and neoliberalism
This paper examines the constraints on state policy autonomy engendered by globalisation. It evaluates the three major competing hypotheses on the decline in the state's inability to bargain with multinational corporations for the purpose of promoting economic development in light of two case studies of state – firm bargaining. The case studies are drawn from the mining sectors in Argentina and Chile in the late 1990s
Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change
The Evolution of the Foreign Direct Investment Regime in the Americas
The purpose of this article is to describe the international regime governing foreign direct investment in the Americas and assess its implications for regional economic governance. The article develops a novel methodology to map the multi-layered patchwork of investment agreements according to the level of investment protection offered by each agreement. The mapping exercise demonstrates the existence of two distinct legalization projects in the…
The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America ‐ by Bebbington, Anthony and Bury, Jeffrey
Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury (eds.) (2013) Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America, University of Texas Press ( Austin, TX), xiii + 361 pp. $40.00 hbk. Subterranean Struggles, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury is the culmination of many years of collaboration between researchers and activists on the issue of mine-community conflicts. It is no exaggeration to say that Bebbington, Bury, and ot…
Overcoming the Resource Curse: Reform and the Rentier State in Chile and Argentina, 1973-2000
This article examines the possibility of overcoming the resource curse through case studies of the appropriation and use of mining rents derived from public-private joint ventures in Argentina and Chile in the period 1973-2000. In particular, it examines how two similar cases of sectoral liberalization resulted in divergent outcomes: the deployment of rent-appropriation strategies around multinational corporations in Argentina and an innovative a…
Beyond voluntary: State–firm bargaining over corporate social responsibilities in mining
This paper investigates how and why governments use both regulatory and extra-juridical pressures to influence what are normally considered to be the voluntary corporate social responsibility contributions of mining firms to local social and economic development that go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements. Based on a modified version of the obsolescing bargain model, the paper argues that governments opt to co-produce corporate social …
The Two Sides of Pascua Lama: Social Protest, Institutional Responses, and Feedback Loops
The article shows that the ability of activists to achieve outcomes that they value is fundamentally conditioned by how bureaucracies implement policies and regulations. Relatively minor changes to bureaucratic policies, regulatory enforcement, or judicial oversight – in a context of rule of law and institutional capacity to implement – can generate new opportunities and feedback loops that increase the influence of social movements over extracti…
Do Canadian Mining Firms Behave Worse Than Other Companies? Quantitative Evidence from Latin America
The effects of Canadian mining companies on local communities abroad is an increasingly contentious topic as activists and academics, citing case studies, have drawn attention to alleged problems. Despite the policy relevance of this issue, there have been no generalizable analyses of whether mining companies headquartered in Canada behave differently from mining firms headquartered in other countries. This paper conducts the first rigorous stati…
Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation
The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining
States and Firms Co-producing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Developing World
This article examines policy options that are co-produced by both states and firms, with the purpose of regulating an area of public policy and the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by companies. The contributions of this article are twofold. First, it creates a typology of the co-production of corporate social responsibility, adding “delegated,” “brokered,” and “partnership” as intermediate categories between the natural end poin…
The social determinants of CSR practice: Between headquarters policy and local mobilization
Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector
Firms should be considered as actors that potentially mediate between social movement pressures and policy outcomes. This article shows that at the mining project level, social mobilization can generate important changes in corporate practices toward nearby communities, and that these practices can undermine the cohesion of social movement coalitions advocating for regulatory intervention or reform, thus limiting their ability to make compelling …
Activist Networks, Territory, and the Spatial Diffusion of Mining Conflicts
This article examines how activist networks contribute to the spatial diffusion of mining conflicts. We conduct a spatial econometric analysis of 590 geolocated mining properties in five countries of Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru), using the univariate local joint count test and the spatial autoregressive probit method. Empirically, the analysis provides strong and generalizable evidence for the spatial diffusion of co…
Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Mining and Resource Management (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Latin Americans (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Public relations (6 works)