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"Transparency for Corporate Political Spending: A Federal Solution"
By David Earley and Ian Vandewalker
Brennan Center for Justice
August 1, 2012
- In an era of skyrocketing election spending, corporations have the ability to secretly spend millions of dollars on politics. Demand for information about corporate political spending has increased among investors and the general public in the years since Citizens United was decided. A new Brennan Center for Justice report details the extent of the problem of anonymous political expenditures and advocates for a viable solution. The Securities and Exchange Commission should issue regulations requiring publicly traded companies to include information about their political spending in their mandatory disclosures.
Download the Report (PDF) or read the Introduction.
Work cited (Using MLA 7):
Earley, David, and Ian Vandewalker. Transparency for Corporate Political Spending: A Federal Solution. Rep. Brennan Center for Justice, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 2 Aug. 2012. <http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/transparency_for_corporate_political_spending_a_federal_solution/>.
Earley, David, and Ian Vandewalker. Transparency for Corporate Political Spending: A Federal Solution. Rep. Brennan Center for Justice, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 2 Aug. 2012. <http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/transparency_for_corporate_political_spending_a_federal_solution/>.
Financial businesses include banks and other companies that generate profit through investment and management of capital. Information businesses generate profits primarily from the resale of intellectual property and include movie studios, publishers and packaged software companies. Thanks.
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