A total of $51m for the second half of 2025 remains unaccounted for due to this technical error, according to the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a non-profit that tracks corporate spending.
The Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which has long worked with investors to promote political transparency, including by developing a model shareholder proposal and maintaining the CPA-Zicklin Index, a widely used measure of corporate political disclosure…
Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution increased to 63.0 percent in the 2025 proxy season, up from 2024’s 60.8 percent support from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Diligent Market Intelligence.
The CPA-Zicklin Index—developed by CPA and the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School—has become the benchmark for measuring how transparently companies report and oversee their corporate-funded election-related spending…
The CPA both maintains the highly influential Zicklin index, which measures several components of issuer political transparency and assists investors in navigating one category of political disclosure proposals.
The number of leading U.S. companies with the most robust policies for transparency and accountability around their political spending increased significantly from 103 in 2024 to 112 this year…
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins and the Trump administration are pushing to eliminate proxy resolutions that are advisory, which would be a fatal blow to resolutions calling for political transparency and board oversight.
Large U.S. corporations are doing a better job of making public their political activity, but they have a long way to go. That’s the conclusion of an annual survey of S&P 500 companies done by the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the…