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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Political action committees"”.
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Political Low Roads: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Demagoguery and the Rise of the New Right
… its politicians, think tanks, and well-financed political action committees, the movement spoke as a unified and collective voice, using precisely the same demagogic rhetorical techniques once exploited only by individual politicians. In short, during the twentieth century the practice of …
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Special Interests and Climate Change: An Analysis of PAC Contributions to Members of the 111th U.S. House
… finance by comparing contribution strategies by political action committees (PACs) representing fossil fuel interests and environmental advocacy groups. Industry not only outspends environmental advocacy groups, but is better represented in the campaign finance space. Using OpenSecrets data on …
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Organizations and the state: An interactive view
… both state legitimating activity as well as the actions of interest groups whose activities shape actions of the state as well as organizations. This dissertation focuses on federal agency rule making behavior. Because the agency rule making process, the process that occurs once a rule is …
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The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power
Increasingly, political action committees and special interest groups dominate the national policy-making process. Critics charge that campaign contributions buy access to and influence with policy makers, and that the differential ability to make such contributions results in disproportional …
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Essays in price discrimination and regulation
… price discrimination in advertising sales to Political Action Committees (PACs) in the 2012 Presidential Election. These groups have grown rapidly - expenditures neared $500 million in the 2012 presidential election - and their effect on elections depends on regulation and its interaction with …
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Essays on political economy
… the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy capture of politicians by special interests, and compare the reaction to increases in concentration by voters covered by two types of media markets - in-state and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media …
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Two essays on political influence and the regulation of financial markets
… first essay I test whether managers engage in political activity designed to influence federal regulation of the market for corporate control. In the second, I examine whether firms in the financial services sector attempt to affect bank deregulation. Using Federal Election Commission data, I …