How do politics shape the workplace?

Americans increasingly sort their lives along partisan lines. Not only are Democrats and Republicans segregated into "red" and "blue" geographies, but they are also increasingly separated along cultural, social, and economic lines.

The workplace is no exception. Despite optimistic hopes that the workplace could be an opportunity for citizens to collaborate and get to know one another across partisan divides, today Americans are politically segregated at work.

I study how workplace political segregation affects the lives of workers, the performance of organizations, the strategic choices made by firms, and the functioning of democratic society as a whole. My research has examined topics at the intersections of business strategy, management and organizations, and politics. Topics I have researched include:

  • The extent of workplace partisan segregation across firms, geographies, industries, and occupations
  • How political stances taken by firms may shape workplace turnover and contribute to political segregation
  • How workplace culture affects workers' civic behavior and democratic participation

Politics at Work

My research uses voter registration records linked to employment histories for tens of millions of U.S. workers, producing one of the first large-scale pictures of how partisanship operates inside firms. You can explore our publicly-available dataset and discover the partisan makeup of organizations, occupations, and industries.

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My research has been published at Organization Science, is forthcoming in Nature Human Behaviour, and is under review (revise and resubmit) at Management Science and Administrative Science Quarterly. My research has been financially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

I have a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before grad school, I worked at McKinsey & Company in Dubai and New York. I also worked in private equity and at the Good Jobs Institute.