A new study, “A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis,” analyzes the correlation between financial institutions’ lobbying and lending activities. An article discusses the report here and the study is available here (78 page PDF). The authors conclude: We show that lenders that lobby more intensively on these specific issues have (i) more […]
Day: January 5, 2010
Paterson seeks ethics overhaul, including public funding initiatives
New York Governor Paterson intends to propose a set of ethics reforms, according to this Times article. Under the proposed legislation, which Mr. Paterson will make a centerpiece of his State of the State address on Wednesday, New York would for the first time provide matching funds to candidates for state office, limit lobbyists to […]
Social media in the forefront of political advocacy
Clickz’s Kate Kaye has a rundown on 2009 developments and trends in social media tools for political and issue advocacy. There were few big elections in 2009, but political and advocacy advertisers took the momentum built in the 2008 presidential elections and ran with it. From a surge in Twitter usage to the Google Surge, […]