CPA Reports

CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability (2012)

Center for Political Accountability, in conjunction with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics, Report, September 2012

CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability (2011)

Center for Political Accountability, in conjunction with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics, Report, October 2011

Handbook on Corporate Political Activity: Emerging Governance Issues (2010)

The Conference Board Research Report, November 2010

Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight (2008)

The Conference Board Executive Action Series No. 263, April 2008. 

Taking Initiative (2008)

How Corporate Contributions to Ballot Measures Pose a Risk to Shareholders, Why Directors Need to Oversee This and Other Company Political Spending

Open Windows (2007)

How Codes of Conduct Regulate Corporate Political Spending And A Model Code of Conduct To Protect Company Interests And Shareholder Value

Hidden Rivers (2006)

How Trade Associations Conceal Corporate Political Spending, Its Threat To Companies, And What Shareholders Can Do

Green Canary (2005)

Altering Shareholders And Protecting Their Investments

CPA Surveys 

Survey of Directors (2008)

Members of boards of directors view political spending as a potentially risky pursuit and an overwhelmingly majority supports disclosure of corporate political activity, according to this survey of 225 directors commissioned by the CPA and conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. Ironically, an overwhelming majority of directors possesses little knowledge of the rules and regulations governing corporate political activity.