The Chicago based Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) released a report this month called “Inspectors General and Government Corruption: A Guide to Best Practices and an Assessment of Five Illinois Offices.”
The Los Angeles Times has compiled a report on the disclosure practices of major corporations. Some corporations already disclose donations to candidates, trade associations, and issue advocacy groups, but a heavy majority of the…
Nonprofit VOTE released America Goes to the Polls 2010 last week, a report on midterm election turnout, and growth from the last midterm in 2006. The report will use that data to look at voting trends such as youth turnout,…
DRI, the Voice of the Defense Bar, released a report this week called “Without Fear or Favor 2011 – A New Decade of Challenges to Judicial Independence and Accountability.”The report looks at the negative ramifications of the Citizens…
This morning, the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) released their Following the Money 2011 report on state website user accessibility and contents.The PIRG website says: “State governments across the country have been moving toward making their checkbooks…
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The League of Women Voters, Common Cause, Democracy 21 and the U.S. PIRG issued a report card for the Executive Branch lobbying, ethics and transparency reforms by the Obama administration.
The Public Campaign Action Fund released this July “Advancing Healthcare Reform Through the Swamp of $187 Million in Iterested Political Money,” which examines how special interests and lobbyists are influencing elected officials in charge of reforming the healthcare…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Campaign Finance Institute issued a report that found “soft money political spending by 501(c) nonprofits tripled in the 2008 election.” CFI’s findings also included: 527 political group spending declined,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU asked “Will courts allow more transparency?” in a story about legal threats to transparency and disclosure laws that appeared in Politico.
MIDWEST —These reports examines campaign finance laws and the ways they’ve worked – or haven’t worked – to limit the influence of money on politics in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.State Reports Illinois report Michigan…
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