Sarang Shah

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Ph.D. Student, Political Science

Sarang Shah is a lawyer and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley. His dissertation is on the political economy of housing in California and how to build the state and local politics to support an abundance agenda. His research interests are in housing, business in politics, political economy, democracy and election law, social science methods, and corporate law and governance.

Recent publications

Journal Article

July 22, 2025

Who wants stakeholder capitalism? Public and elite perceptions of the role of business leaders in politics

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.

Journal Article

May 19, 2025

The partisan realignment of American business: Evidence from a survey of corporate leaders

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.

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