The Politicization of Social Responsibility

 The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance post on the politicization of social responsibility gives you loads to ponder. It says that their research “reveal[s] a clear and significant relationship between state-level politics and institutional investors’ voting behavior. Specifically, institutional support for SRI proposals is 4.1 percentage points lower for firms headquartered in Republican-led states, representing a 13% decline relative to the average support level across the sample. Moreover, the association between state-level politics and SRI voting has become more pronounced recently. “