Citizens United vs. FEC. on the Political Policies of U.S. Senators
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i3.3827Keywords:
Citizens United, SCOTUS, Campaign FinanceAbstract
The increase in corporate political donations brought by Citizens United vs. Federal Election Committee (2010) has given businesses more power. Using regression analysis, I analyzed the proportions of PAC donations from businesses to incumbent senators re-elected in 2018 and 2020 in order to determine a relationship between contributions to senators and political ideology scores. Republicans were largely unaffected by the portion of business PAC donations they received, but Democratic senators who received a larger portion of PAC donations from businesses became more neutral than Democratic senators who did not receive such a high percentage of corporate PAC donations.
Downloads
References or Bibliography
Bibliography
“Analysis Methodology.” GovTrack. Accessed January 29, 2022. https://www.govtrack.us/about/analysis#ideology.
Bonica, Adam, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. “Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 3 (2013): 103–23. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41955547.
“Congress.” OpenSecrets. Accessed March 20, 2022. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress.
Cook, Fay Lomax, Benjamin I. Page, and Rachel L. Moskowitz. “Political Engagement by Wealthy Americans.” Political Science Quarterly 129, no. 3 (2014): 381-98. Accessed September 8, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43828434.
Flavin, Patrick. “Campaign Finance Laws, Policy Outcomes, and Political Equality in the American States.” Political Research Quarterly 68, no. 1 (March 2015): 77-88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24371973.
Huber, Jürgen, and Michael Kirchler. “Corporate Campaign Contributions and Abnormal Stock Returns after Presidential Elections.” Public Choice 156, no. 1/2 (2013): 285–307. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42003159.
Krumholz, Sheila. “Campaign Cash and Corruption: Money in Politics, Post-Citizens United.” Social Research 80, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1119-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24385653.
Lau, Tim. “Citizens United Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice. Last modified December 12, 2019. Accessed December 20, 2021. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained.
“Members of Congress.” GovTrack. Accessed March 20, 2022. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members.
“Mission.” OpenSecrets. Accessed January 29, 2022. https://www.opensecrets.org/about/.
Page, Benjamin I., Larry M. Bartels, and Jason Seawright. “Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans.” Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 1 (March 2013): 51-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43280689.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Robert F. Schoeni. “How Wealth Inequality Shapes Our Future.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2, no. 6 (2016): 2–22. https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2016.2.6.01.
Shapiro, Dmitry, and Arthur Zillante. “Contribution Limits and Transparency in a Campaign Finance Experiment.” Southern Economic Journal 84, no. 1 (2017): 98–119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26632748.
Yackee, Susan Webb. “Invisible (and Visible) Lobbying: The Case of State Regulatory Policymaking.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 15, no. 3 (2015): 322-44. Accessed September 8, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24643837.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2022 Priya Shah
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright holder(s) granted JSR a perpetual, non-exclusive license to distriute & display this article.
