… The results of a new academic study looking at the power of chief executives over the politics of their employees is stunning and perhaps unsettling.
Three business professors set out to examine “how the political preferences of C.E.O.s affect their employees’ campaign contributions and electoral choices.” The results of the study, which looked at eight federal election cycles from 1999 to 2014 and over 2,000 companies, showed a statistically significant correlation among campaign contributions made by the chief and his or her employees as well as voter turnout. CONT.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times