Maks-Solomon, Cory. “Is There an Economic Incentive for Firm Social Activism? Stock Market Reactions to LGBT Rights and Immigration Activism.” Working paper.
Why Do Firms Engage in Social Activism? Consumers, Employees, and Liberal CEOs
Maks-Solomon, Cory. 2019. “Why Do Firms Engage in Social Activism? Consumers, Employees, and Liberal CEOs.” (Job market paper)
Last updated November 7, 2019.

Why Do Corporations Engage in LGBT Rights Activism? LGBT Employee Groups as Internal Pressure Groups
Maks-Solomon, Cory, and Josiah Mark Drewry. “Why Do Corporations Engage in LGBT Rights Activism? LGBT Employee Groups as Internal Pressure Groups.” Business and Politics. Accepted with minor revisions, September 16, 2019.
- This research was presented at the 2018 APSA annual conference, the winter 2019 NCAPSA workshop, and the 2019 AOM annual conference.
- In the Social Issues in Management section of the 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, this paper received the Best Student Paper Award.
- Most recent draft of the paper is available here. And the appendix is available here.

Are Democrats Really the Party of the Poor? Partisanship, Class, and Representation in the U.S. Senate
Maks-Solomon, Cory, and Elizabeth Rigby. “Are Democrats Really the Party of the Poor? Partisanship, Class, and Representation in the U.S. Senate.” Political Research Quarterly. Published ahead of print, July 13, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919862623.
- Pre-publication draft can be found here. (And the Online Appendix is available here.)
- Replication materials are available through Google Drive.
- This research received media coverage at Vox and Jacobin.
- This research was previously presented at APSA 2017 and SPSA 2018.

For each quintile (1 = poor; 5 = rich), the average ideology is plotted with a normally-distributed confidence interval surrounding it. The x-axis represents the percentage of issues that the respondent took a conservative stance, ranging from 0% to 80% of the issues.
Weathering the Storm: Social Policy and the Great Recession
Maks‐Solomon, Cory, and Robert P. Stoker. 2019. “Weathering the Storm: Social Policy and the Great Recession.” Policy Studies Journal 47 (S1): S119–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12318.
This review discusses recent challenges to the welfare state arising from the Great Recession (GR). The GR was a significant event for social policy analysts, as it tested the responsiveness of welfare systems in the midst of a recent trend toward austerity politics in advanced economies. Social policy changes were part of the toolkit advanced democracies used to respond to the GR, and the welfare state mitigated the consequences of the GR. However, a stark limitation of the social safety net in the United States was the failure to assist immigrant households. The nexus of immigration and social policy is likely to be a significant controversy as we consider the meaning of social citizenship.

Direct Election and Economic Policy Voting in the U.S. Senate: Responsiveness to States, Voters, and Special Interests

Maks-Solomon, Cory. 2018. “Direct Election and Economic Policy Voting in the U.S. Senate.” In Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.