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…
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…
Despite political headwinds, a record 112 S&P 500 companies scored 90 percent or better on measures such as whether they disclose political spending with corporate funds, or make boards responsible for overseeing it.
Some 205 companies in the overall S&P 500 scored over 80%, or in the first tier, of the 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, a benchmarking study released Thursday.
A forthcoming article on Private Ordering, authored by CPA.
Republicans have received around $284,000 compared to Democratsʼ roughly $215,000, though Chubb has only donated to Republicans in the past two years, according to data compiled by the Center for Political Accountability…