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Campaign Contributions Facilitate Access to Congressional Officials
Field experiment by Joshua Kalla and David Broockman; the American Journal of Political Science noted it as forthcoming in 2015. Quoted here from the working paper.
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- How are Campaign Contributions Facilitate Access to Congressional Officials and … connected?
What it found
When informed prospective attendees were political donors, senior policymakers made themselves available between three and four times more often (p < 0.01).
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- Citizens United v. FEC Scholarship & press 12
- McCutcheon v. FEC Scholarship & press 1
Proof 2 sources
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Congressional Officials Grant Access to Individuals Because They Have Contributed to Campaigns: A Randomized Field Experiment (working paper, earlier version of the AJPS article), Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman, working paper.
Scholarship & press
When informed prospective attendees were political donors, senior policymakers made themselves available between three and four times more often (p < 0.01).
Assuming the Court does not revisit its decisions in the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases, our findings raise troubling concerns about their implications for political equality.
18.8% of the groups revealed to be donors met with any senior staffer, while only 5.5%
every United States Representative of a particular political party
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How Campaign Money Facilitates Access to Policymakers, American Journal of Political Science (blog), 12 May 2015.
Scholarship & press
we do not know if this sort of access translates into tangible influence
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