Corporate and Union Advocacy

Thank you for inviting me here today to address a proposed executive order requiring bidders on government contracts to disclose their political spending, and that ...

I very much appreciate the opportunity to submit this written statement to give my assessment of the Proposed Executive Order entitled Disclosure of Political ...

I N 1948, FLINT, MICHIGAN, was more than the backdrop for a Michael Moore movie.1 While it may be difficult to imagine today, Flint was then a prosperous ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, there has been significant speculation as to how the ...

First, it is important to note that long before the Court’s decision in Citizens United, corporations, unions and other groups could spend an unlimited amount ...

The FirstAmendmentto the U.S.Constitution recognizes a laissez-faire policy toward speech and the press. The Framers of the Bill of Rights worried that the self-interest of politicians fostered suppression ...

This paper uses event study methodology to measure whether firms that gave soft money to political parties received excessively high rates of returns from their ...

Campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) are often portrayed in the media as the functional equivalent of bribes. In particular, corporate PAC contributions are ...