Renira is a PhD candidate in political science with specialization in political economy at Central European University, Budapest and a guest researcher in the CORPNET group. Her doctoral project focuses on the partisanship and the political economic institutions of corporate governance and top executive compensation across capitalist market economies. Drawing on firm level cross country data, interviews and policy analyses, she empirically assesses the political origins of the divergent shareholder governance adoption and changes in top executive compensation norms.