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Campaign contributions, lobbying and post‐Katrina contracts
Author(s) -
Hogan Michael J.,
Long Michael A.,
Stretesky Paul B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01158.x
Subject(s) - liberian dollar , politics , natural disaster , hurricane katrina , government (linguistics) , context (archaeology) , poison control , deviance (statistics) , business , public administration , political science , economics , finance , law , environmental health , medicine , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , statistics , mathematics , meteorology , biology
This research explores the relationship between political campaign contributions, lobbying and post‐Hurricane Katrina cleanup and reconstruction contracts. Specifically, a case‐control study design is used to determine whether campaign contributions to national candidates in the 2000–04 election cycles and/or the employment of lobbyists and lobbying firms increased a company's probability of receiving a post‐hurricane contract. Results indicate that both a campaign contribution dichotomous variable and the dollar amount of contributions are significantly related to whether a company received a contract, but that lobbying activity was not. These findings are discussed in the context of previous research on the politics of natural disasters, government contracting and governmental and corporate deviance.