Corporate independent spending in the post-BCRA to pre-Citizens United era

Business and Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Clark Muntean, Susan ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

527s; BCRA; corporate political action; founding family firms; independent spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955675980     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1348     Document Type: Article

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