Sukrit Puri on the Entanglement between Business and Politics in India
10/03/24 • 57 min
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This is the 2024 job market series where I speak with young scholars entering the academic job market about the latest research in India.
I spoke with Sukrit Puri, who is a PhD candidate in political science at MIT and an Elinor Ostrom fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research focus is on the entanglement between business and politics in emerging economies, and his dissertation focuses on family firms in India. We discussed his job market paper, Corporate Kinship: Political Attachments of the Family Firm, we talked about how family firms differ from management and expert run businesses in India, whether it is in their firm structure or their political giving, whether family firms are most strategic or expressive in politics, the differences in the nature of the quid pro quo for a family firm versus a management run firm, the latest electoral bond scheme, and much more.
Recorded September 11th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:16) - Grand Tamasha
(00:03:05) - Analyzing Family-Run Firms and Campaign Donations
(00:07:06) - How Family Businesses Donate Politically in Relation to Corporations and Individuals
(00:10:17) - Distinctions Between Family-Run and Non-Family-Run Firms
(00:14:48) - Political Donations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Overlap or Distinct Strategies?
(00:19:35) - The Hidden Side of Campaign Contributions
(00:25:56) - Ethnic Identity in Relation to Expressive Giving
(00:28:59) - Challenges in Measuring Quid Pro Quo Arrangements
(00:35:55) - The Impact of Demonetization on Political Donations
(00:37:06) - Assessing the Reaction to the Information Shock from Mandated Disclosures
(00:45:22) - Understanding the Reputational Impact of Political Donations
(00:51:15) - Is Uncertainty a Factor?
(00:57:11) - Outro
Subscribe to Grand Tamasha on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or your favorite podcast app.
This is the 2024 job market series where I speak with young scholars entering the academic job market about the latest research in India.
I spoke with Sukrit Puri, who is a PhD candidate in political science at MIT and an Elinor Ostrom fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research focus is on the entanglement between business and politics in emerging economies, and his dissertation focuses on family firms in India. We discussed his job market paper, Corporate Kinship: Political Attachments of the Family Firm, we talked about how family firms differ from management and expert run businesses in India, whether it is in their firm structure or their political giving, whether family firms are most strategic or expressive in politics, the differences in the nature of the quid pro quo for a family firm versus a management run firm, the latest electoral bond scheme, and much more.
Recorded September 11th, 2024.
Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links.
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Follow Shruti on X
Follow Sukrit on X
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:16) - Grand Tamasha
(00:03:05) - Analyzing Family-Run Firms and Campaign Donations
(00:07:06) - How Family Businesses Donate Politically in Relation to Corporations and Individuals
(00:10:17) - Distinctions Between Family-Run and Non-Family-Run Firms
(00:14:48) - Political Donations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Overlap or Distinct Strategies?
(00:19:35) - The Hidden Side of Campaign Contributions
(00:25:56) - Ethnic Identity in Relation to Expressive Giving
(00:28:59) - Challenges in Measuring Quid Pro Quo Arrangements
(00:35:55) - The Impact of Demonetization on Political Donations
(00:37:06) - Assessing the Reaction to the Information Shock from Mandated Disclosures
(00:45:22) - Understanding the Reputational Impact of Political Donations
(00:51:15) - Is Uncertainty a Factor?
(00:57:11) - Outro
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Rolly Kapoor on Group Travel and Women's Job Search Behavior in India
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We are kicking off the 2024 job market series, where I speak with young scholars entering the academic job market about their latest research on India.
Our first scholar in the series is Rolly Kapoor, who is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz. Before this, she received a BA in Economics from Delhi University and an MSE in Economics from University College London.
Her research focuses on issues related to gender, access and urban mobility in developing countries. We spoke about her job market paper titled, Together to Work? The Effect of Travel Buddies on Women’s Employment and Mobility in India, co-authored with Smit Gade. We talked about the difficulties women have in navigating urban areas, its effect on female labor force participation, the impact of safe travel on job market decisions, and much more.
Recorded September 6th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:14) - Grand Tamasha
(00:05:07) - Mobility Constraints for Women in India
(00:07:37) - The Study: How Do Women Travel Together?
(00:10:04) - Background on Women’s Travel in India
(00:13:00) - Social Norms and the Cognitive Load: Benefits of Women Traveling Together
(00:16:42) - Findings on Travel Buddies and Job Interview Attendance and Additional Positive Impacts
(00:21:14) - Implications for Further Research on Women’s Mobility Patterns
(00:26:40) - Diverse Reactions to Travel Interventions
(00:28:32) - Policy Implications for Supporting Women’s Travel
(00:33:43) - Other Research Projects on Women and Labor
(00:39:29) - Outro
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Deepika Padmanabhan on Language, Identity, and Nation-Building in South India
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I spoke with Deepika Padmanabhan, who's a PhD candidate in political science at Yale University. Her research focuses on nationalism, language and self-determination with a regional focus in South Asia. We discussed her job market paper, everyday imposition language promotion as a nation building strategy in Southern India. We talked about how the exposure to dominant national languages like English and Hindi impacts the identity of subnational regional speakers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the politics of language in South Asia, the instrumental versus symbolic characteristics of regional languages and much more.
Recorded September 11th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:08) - Grand Tamasha
(00:02:47) - Linguistic Diversity and National Identity
(00:03:55) - History and Politics of Multilingualism in India
(00:06:20) - Language as a Nation-Building Tool with Putative Effects
(00:08:53) - Experiencing the Hierarchy of National and Subnational Identities Through Language
(00:11:51) - Observing the Discriminatory Effects of Linguistic Imposition
(00:15:37) - Bilingualism or Diglossia
(00:18:03) - Differences in the Political and Economic Valences of Hindi and English
(00:21:18) - Migration and Language Politics
(00:22:35) - Linguistic Pluralism in Relation to National Identity and Growing Nativism
(00:25:39) - Hindi as the Site of Political and Economic Tensions
(00:30:45) - Dialects of Local Languages Provoking a Subnational Identity
(00:34:26) - A Linguistic Origin Story
(00:38:33) - Politics in Tamil Film
(00:43:20) - The Future of Linguistic Diversity with Advancements in Technology
(00:45:15) - Outro
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