Pepper Culpepper

Pepper Culpepper, a political scientist who studies corporate power and regulation, explores how major corporate scandals can trigger political change. He discusses vivid hearings, high-profile cases like Cambridge Analytica and VW, how latent public anger becomes reform, differences between democratic and authoritarian responses, and why scandals may shape future regulation on tech, AI, and climate.

Pepper Culpepper, political scientist and co-author of Billionaire Backlash, studies how corporate scandals reshape politics. He traces scandal origins from the 2008 crisis to Cambridge Analytica and Samsung. Short, vivid stories show how scandals make complex failures legible, spur regulation, and sometimes fail when polarization or convenience blunts public pressure.

Pepper Culpepper, a political scientist who studies corporate power, explains how major corporate scandals can turn diffuse public concern into political pressure. He discusses vivid framing, privacy and platform harms, historic cases like VW and Cambridge Analytica, and when scandals succeed or fail at driving democratic reform.