Do CEOs affect employees' political choices?
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Keywords
campaign contributions; elections; voting; CEOs; political activism; PACs; political candidates; voter turnout;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2018-05-21 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2018-05-21 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-HRM-2018-05-21 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-POL-2018-05-21 (Positive Political Economics)
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