Strategic Access and Ideological Giving: Business PACs 1980-2014

• In Event: The Business of Politics is Business: Lobbying and Business Interests

Brief Overview

Analyzing changes in Business PAC contributions over time, we find that they follow a Conditional Party Government logic of funding incumbents more than a access model. They give more to GOP leaders but not Democratic leaders as power centralizes.

Authors

• Eric S. Heberlig, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Bruce Anders Larson, Gettysburg College