{"id":13532,"date":"2009-09-27T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:17:44","slug":"partisan-political-contributions-by-u-s-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/27\/partisan-political-contributions-by-u-s-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Political Contributions by U.S. Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies donate to political campaigns in order to gain some leverage over policy making processes.\u00a0 This fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodguide.com\/contributions#sector=Computer\/Internet&amp;sort=total&amp;query=\" target=\"_blank\">interactive graphic<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chartporn.org\/2009\/09\/18\/company-political-contributions\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>) allows you to see which companies donate primarily to Republican and Democratic campaigns, and which straddle the political fence.\u00a0 These are the companies with the largest total contribution:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13534\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capture15.JPG\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"554\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most Republican leaning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13535\" title=\"Capturerep\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturerep.JPG\" alt=\"Capturerep\" width=\"556\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturerep.JPG 692w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturerep-488x500.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most Democratic leaning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13536\" title=\"Capturedem\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturedem.JPG\" alt=\"Capturedem\" width=\"557\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturedem.JPG 692w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturedem-485x500.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also search by type of company.\u00a0 For example, media and entertainment:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13537\" title=\"Captureent\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Captureent.JPG\" alt=\"Captureent\" width=\"555\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Captureent.JPG 694w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Captureent-490x500.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transportation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13538\" title=\"Capturetrans\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturetrans.JPG\" alt=\"Capturetrans\" width=\"556\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturetrans.JPG 689w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturetrans-486x500.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceuticals:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13539\" title=\"Capturepharm\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capturepharm.JPG\" alt=\"Capturepharm\" width=\"564\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <\/span>Comments on this thread have been closed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies donate to political campaigns in order to gain some leverage over policy making processes.\u00a0 This fun interactive graphic (via) allows you to see which companies donate primarily to Republican and Democratic campaigns, and which straddle the political fence.\u00a0 These are the companies with the largest total contribution: The most Republican leaning: The most Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,85,304],"class_list":["post-13532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-politics","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51845,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/51845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}