Sentences with phrase «effects of campaign contributions»

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«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

The state Business Council on Wednesday urged the Board of Elections in a letter to not end what in effect has been a regulation allowing unlimited campaign contributions through LLCs.

That's consistent with the Cuomo campaign statement that they have focused on large dollar contributors, but still surprising and a powerful demonstration of the effect of New York's high contribution limits.

While scholars have looked at the effects of other kinds of campaign finance regulations, such as contribution and spending limits and public financing of campaigns, very little work has examined the...

He did find a negative effect for campaign contributions, finding that campaign contributions do lead to a loss of legitimacy (this is also true for state legislatures).