Republican Party - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

business than Democrats—and that partisan start-up gap significantly widens when Republicans take control of the presidency. Alignment with the president’s party also seems to impact the pace of innovation.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

virtually the same: on average Republicans kept $3.72 and Democrats kept $3.67. The next three questions added party affiliation into the mix for most players. They were told whether their anonymous partners... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that this is having on our entire economy" While competition between the two parties looks fiercer than ever, in reality, the study suggests, both Democrats and View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

Republican presidential candidates, but the results could help many marketing teams decide how to allocate scarce resources between mass advertising and personal selling efforts, or, as the researchers call it, between the air war and the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

Yesterday, President Donald Trump endorsed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan proposed by Republican United States lawmakers to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as “Obamacare.” Democrats rallied against... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats voted in the primaries, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

advertisements in battleground or swing states. These ads are designed to raise doubts about and paint a picture of Trump before he has enough money to hit the airwaves in earnest. Complementing this air war is Clinton's well-organized ground game with Democratic View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

of the paper’s authors. The main reason is that party and candidate positions on key issues subtly or not-so-subtly change from election to election in reaction to shifts in voter sentiment, undercutting the demographic trends. Political... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would... View Details

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

at least an appearance of neutrality, Fox News delivered aggressive takes on current events, politics, and business news with what was perceived as a conservative, Republican slant. It made no secret of its ideological position, and had... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can blame them? US Congress,... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

world of MMT, deficits fuel growth that produces government revenue sufficient for public investment. As long as interest rates remain below the rate of growth—the current US experience—further government borrowing is a good strategy. MMT fits nicely with the aims of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

a tough stance to renegotiate trade deals but does not really intend to disrupt the status quo of global trade and the free movement of capital, both of which have benefited this country immensely. Free trade has been in the DNA of the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

in Congress, U.S. public opinion at the time of the bill’s passage was mixed but sharply split along party lines. Which appraisal of TCJA would prove to be right? Would TCJA's changes last, or would the American public end up rejecting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

primaries, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to the electorate, a theme that had been on the sidelines of U.S. political discourse for decades. Trump, in particular, played into the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

the slant from experienced contributors becomes less extreme over time. The experienced contributors with the most extreme biases decline the most. We also find some significant differences between Republicans and Democrats. Download... View Details