Over the past couple of weeks, a flurry of Democratic candidates announced they would refuse campaign donations from “corporate PACs.” U.S. senators like Cory Booker (D-N.J.), plus several House candidates, made this known in a bid to win the support of End Citizens United, a P...
million Presidential Sponsors, corporate and special interest money is flowing into Denver this week right along with the politicians.The events range from luncheons for delegates hosted by AT&T to private suites at Invesco Field for big donors to the Denver committee that's hosting the convention....
Daines, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, used his slot to plead for cash for his GOP candidates, and he helpfully included a website for donations. His name drops gave a hint toward what he sees as an expanding map: Jim Justice in West Virginia, Tim Sheehy in Mo...
Capitol, Walmart’s political action committee is indefinitely suspending contributions to those members of Congress who voted against the lawful certification of state electoral college votes.” Suspending all PAC donations Some companies have opted to suspend donations to all politicians, regardless ...
CPA represents a typical non-market approach to grassroots politics and lobbying, corporate donations for PACs, as well as the development of political connections with governing officials [64]. Such a “political market” framework of CPA sees businesses as “demanders”, with government officials ...
To better demonstrate the boundary condition of the relationship between corporate depoliticization and green innovation, we examine the moderating effect of politician turnover on the above relationship. The turnover of politicians can accelerate firm’s depoliticization and, thus, cause firms to ...
In the book’s conclusion, I trace the political donations from that very small number of private equity firms and hedge funds that have given over the last twenty years to politicians on both sides of the aisle. That came right from the book’s conclusion. These are firms that have given...
Regressing our weighted average ratings on the sociopolitical claims variables enables us to evaluate the extent to which more claims are associated with more donations to politicians whose voting records are in line with the firms' communicated claims. The coefficients on Ln(ENVtimes), Ln(ENVdocs)...
And that is just the tip of the iceberg, experts say, as the communities also receive a host of subsidies, property and income tax revenues, compensation to individuals and even “anonymous” donations to local treasuries that are widely believed to come from plant operators. Unquestionably, the...
This is because firms with higher visibility tend to make use of their favorable position with expectation that their potential donations will be noticed by customers and politicians who value philanthropic acts, which would potentially promote sales and increase government benefits. Therefore, greater ...