2025 Proxy Season Analysis (Institutional Investor Report)
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.
Real Risks
The report is divided into three parts: risk to the bottom line; risks from political pressure and retribution; and risks to corporate culture and a stable business environment. It concludes with policies companies can put in place and actions they can take to protect themselves narrowly and broadly.
Risky Return: The True Price of Crypto’s Political Spending Spree
This report from the Center for Political Accountability sheds light on electoral spending by public companies heavily involved in the emerging cryptocurrency fields. The report traces tens of millions of dollars in targeted political spending and links that spending to concrete risks, caused by this spending, that affect already embattled companies.
The Corporate Underwriters Trilogy
The 2024 trilogy of reports by the Center for Political Accountability— Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap, Courting Risk: Corporate Underwriters & State Attorneys General, and Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road executive summary.
2024 Proxy Season Analysis (Institutional Investor Report)
Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution dropped to 63.7 percent in the 2024 proxy season, down from 2023’s 70.1 percent support from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Diligent Market Intelligence.
Breakdown of Public Company Donations to 527 Committees
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Mason-Dixon CPA National Shareholder Poll
This poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida from July 22 through August 2, 2024. A total of 800 adults were interviewed nationwide by telephone. All indicated they currently have money invested in common stock, mutual funds or other investments like an IRA, 401K, education fund or pension plan that…