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 WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > FACT AND OPINION CONSTRUCTION(THINK TANKS) > CORPORATE MONEY AND POLITICS
  Corporate Money and Politics


The fact that corporate money is seeking to influence public policy is nothing unusual. From the different ways of how private money helps to shape politics the first, and most familiar is direct campaign contributions to political candidates and parties, which is especially widespread in the United States. While the second great river of money goes to underwrite lobbying apparatus in diverse state capitals, the third form of attempts to influence public policy making is less well-known, but nearly as wide and deep as the two others - it is money which underwrites a vast network of public policy think tanks and advocacy groups. Although tried to be labeled in another way, unmistakably, these donations are naked attempts by corporations and other donors, to influence the political process.




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-3   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Brookings Institution
-2   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Cato Institute
-1   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute
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+1   Influence of Corporate Funding on Think Tank Activities
+2   The Microsoft Case
+3   Conservative vs. Progressive Think Tanks
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