Shining a Light on State Campaign Finance: An Evaluation of the Impact of the National Institute on Money in State Politics

doi:10.7249/RR791

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DOI	10.7249/RR791
报告编号	RR-791-NIMSP
	Shining a Light on State Campaign Finance: An Evaluation of the Impact of the National Institute on Money in State Politics
	Geoffrey McGovern; Michael D. Greenberg
	2014
出版年	2014
页数	58
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	The National Institute on Money in State Politics collects, processes, and makes public information on campaign contributions made to state-level candidates for public office. The Institute asked the RAND Corporation to probe user perspectives on the Institute and its data, on how the data are being used, and on how the utility of the data might be improved in the future. Drawing on experiences of a variety of users, as well as a review of the publications that have used the Institute's data and research reports, this report provides an evaluation of the Institute's impact on the public discourse over campaign finance at the state level. It is our view that the Institute serves an important purpose — to undertake the collection, centralization, and dissemination of state-level campaign finance data. No other organization has been successful in this effort or is likely to be so. All the audiences that the Institute seeks to engage have found value in the Institute's efforts. The most successful of these are the scholarly, journalistic, and advocacy communities. The interviewees we spoke with were impressed, felt indebted to the Institute, and expressed an inability to do the sort of research, reporting, and advocacy on state campaign finance without the Institute. Overall, a variety of influential users engaged in campaign finance and public policy view the Institute's work as being of high quality and adding value.
英文关键词	e-Government Program Evaluation Politics and Government
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/3953
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Geoffrey McGovern,Michael D. Greenberg. Shining a Light on State Campaign Finance: An Evaluation of the Impact of the National Institute on Money in State Politics:RAND Corporation,2014.