Eitan Hersh

In a July 2025 article for the journal Perspectives on Politics, political science Ph.D. student and BESI graduate student researcher Sarang Shah and Tufts political science professor Eitan Hersh report on the results of a survey of business leaders and the mass public. They find that while the public cares very little about corporate leader engagement, business leaders would like to see active engagement on issues from their firms, albeit from behind the scenes.

Sarang Shah, a Ph.D. candidate in political science and a Designated Emphasis in Political Economy student, and his co-author, Eitan Hersh, recently conducted a survey of American firm leaders' political alignment. The two present their results in a May 2025 article in the British Journal of Political Science.