{"id":3598,"date":"2024-07-11T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=3598"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:48:34","slug":"paul-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/paul-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1443\" height=\"1443\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Paul, headshot\" class=\"wp-image-3801\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/NguyenPaul.jpeg-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1443px) 100vw, 1443px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MIT Department: <\/strong>Political Science<br><strong>Faculty Mentor: <\/strong>Prof. Ariel White<br><strong>Research Supervisor: <\/strong>Esteban Fernandez<br><strong>Undergraduate Institution:<\/strong> Macalester College<br><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Saint Paul, Minnesota<br><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paul-nguyen-793627227\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Nguyen is a rising junior at Macalester College, double majoring in Political Science and Economics. A life-long resident of Saint Paul, Paul has developed a keen interest in politics through his active engagement with various community organizations. His interests lie in social movements, American politics, and racial\/ethnic politics, which have been sparked by his work with community organizations. Throughout his experiences, Paul has become passionate about studying social movements and their effects on society and government. At Macalester, Paul partners with local neighborhood councils to improve the Saint Paul neighborhoods. His work has led him to ask questions about societal issues and how different societal actors address them. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Political Science in hopes of fostering change and addressing societal needs. Paul is driven to use research to ensure underrepresented voices are heard within politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Movements:<br>Predicting Companies\u2019 Responses to 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Paul Nguyen<sup>1 <\/sup>and Ariel White<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><br><sup>1<\/sup>Department of Political Science, Macalester College<br><sup>2<\/sup>Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2020, corporations have increasingly participated in social movements. For instance, during the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, many corporations publicly endorsed racial justice. But why did some corporations make statements while others stayed silent? Existing literature highlights effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) but lacks insights into the predictors. My argument posits that corporations weigh the risks and benefits of making statements on social movement based on consumer reactions. To anticipate consumer reactions, they assess their consumer\u2019s political ideology\u2019s alignment with the political stance of the social movement. Corporations then predict their consumer\u2019s ideology by using the location of their physical stores and measuring democratic vote shares within the respective region. I hypothesize that corporations are more likely to engage in movements aligned with their consumers\u2019 political ideology. To empirically test this, I use the 2020 BLM movement as it received varying degrees of engagement. I regress the democratic vote share of a corporation\u2019s store\u2019s locations with the frequency of statements and expect that corporations in areas with higher democratic vote shares are more likely to make racial justice statements. This research contributes to the social movement literature on corporate activism as it investigates political behavior on corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3801,"template":"","profile_category":[22],"class_list":["post-3598","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2024-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3598\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}