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Interest groups are policy maximizers, while political parties are seat maximizers. These competing goals have important implications for the relationship between interest groups and parties. In this paper I develop an argument concerning the patterns of hard money contributions from Political Action Committees (PACs) to candidates for the U.S. Congress. I argue that interest groups have preferences as to which party gets majority control of each of the chambers of Congress, which leads them to direct --sincere'' and electorally useful money to this party (i.e. labor groups prefer Democrats, corporate groups prefer Republicans). When interest groups donate funds to the --other'' party, the donations are designed to have as minimal electoral impact as possible. Interest groups accomplish this by giving --strategic'' donations to this party in the following way: donate less money, later in the cycle, almost exclusively to incumbents. |
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| Brunell, Thomas. "The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Patterns of Interest Group Contributions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66453_index.html> |
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| Brunell, T. L. , 2002-08-28 "The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Patterns of Interest Group Contributions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66453_index.html |
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Abstract: Interest groups are policy maximizers, while political parties are seat maximizers. These competing goals have important implications for the relationship between interest groups and parties. In this paper I develop an argument concerning the patterns of hard money contributions from Political Action Committees (PACs) to candidates for the U.S. Congress. I argue that interest groups have preferences as to which party gets majority control of each of the chambers of Congress, which leads them to direct --sincere'' and electorally useful money to this party (i.e. labor groups prefer Democrats, corporate groups prefer Republicans). When interest groups donate funds to the --other'' party, the donations are designed to have as minimal electoral impact as possible. Interest groups accomplish this by giving --strategic'' donations to this party in the following way: donate less money, later in the cycle, almost exclusively to incumbents. |
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| The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Patterns of Interest Group Contributions Thomas L. Brunell Department of Political Science Binghamton University Binghamton NY 139026000 brunell@binghamton.edu August 22 2002 Abstract Interest groups are policy maximizers while political parties are seat maximizers. These competing goals have important implications for the relationship between interest groups and parties. In this paper I develop an argument concerning the patterns of hard money contributions from Political Action Committees (PACs) to candidates for the U.S. |
| 252.2 3.18 + Entries are the average number of days prior to the general election that a donation was made to the two political parties. Data from the detailed files from the FEC 199596 elec tion cycle and include the top seven corpo rate PACs by overall total donations. Dif ference of means ttest: p<.05 Table 11: Top Labor PACs: Average Number of Days Prior to Election that Donations were Made by Party + Party N Mean Std. Err. |
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