Emerging Influence Practices & Leveraging Points

Adam Winkler & Vikramaditya Khanna

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On February 10, 2022, we spoke with Adam Winkler, UCLA law and Vikramaditya Khanna, Michigan Law to explore “CPR & The History of Corporate Political rights.”

In this discussion, we talked about some of the crucial leverage points corporations and other organizations could take to mitigate their misalignment. For example, consumers, shareholder’s activism, and employees can push corporations to make a change and get involved in certain activities in terms of reputation and long-term profits. As corporations are profit-seeking, finding the proper incentives to encourage corporations to support a healthy democracy could be hard and requires much effort.

In this module, we explore:

• What emerging trends are you seeing around corporate influence?
• Where do you see leverage points for improvement?

The Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce (CPRT)’s Expert Dialogues are in-depth, recorded conversations with academic experts, stakeholder advocates and business practitioners to provide our members and other CPR champions with the expertise and context they need to develop principled, proactive CPR strategies. We invite those interested in a constructive, non-partisan, principles-based discussion.

KEYWORDS: #CorporatePoliticalResponsibility #ESG #CivicEngagement #Democracy