Practical Stake Report
First Hard Look at Business’ Stake in Democracy, How Their Corporate Political Spending Puts It All At Risk & How Companies Can Best Respond
CPA’s 2021 Institutional Investor Proxy Vote Analysis
Investment Management Titans Finally Come to the Table on Corporate Political Disclosure BlackRock, Vanguard Contribute to Record Large Investor Support WASHINGTON — Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped to 83.5 percent in 2021, up from 75.7 percent in 2020 according to analysis based…
Conflicted Consequences
Leading public corporations and their trade associations have quietly poured hundreds of millions of dollars over the decade into political groups influential in shaping state elections and resulting divisive policy agendas. Conflicted Consequences pulls back the curtain on the large, little-noticed donations by U.S. corporations and their trade associations to these so-called “527” groups and…
2020 Largest Investors Proxy Vote Analysis: Large-Investor Support Jumps in Election Year
The largest investors’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped to 75.6 percent in 2020, up from 67.3 percent in 2019 according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Proxy Insight. This follows a comparatively modest 1.1 percentage point increase in support from 2018 to 2019.
2019 Proxy Season Analysis: Mutual Fund Support for Corporate Political Disclosure Continues Steady Rise
The largest mutual funds’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution continued to steadily rise in 2019, to 56.0 percent from 52.7 percent in 2018 according to analysis based on the Morningstar Fund Votes Database. This increased support continues to build on the strong momentum of the 8.2 percentage point increase…
CPA’s Corporate 527 Donation Data Set
Please download the zip file below to access Center for Political Accountability’s research on contributions to and spending by 527 political committees over the past decade, which forms the basis for CPA’s forthcoming Conflicted Consequences report. CPA’s research focused on six state-focused political committees, several of which reshaped state and national politics and policy. The…
Mutual Fund Support for Corporate Political Disclosure Surges in 2018
The largest mutual funds’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped significantly in 2018, to 53 percent from 45 percent in 2017, according to an analysis by Fund Votes. This eight percentage point increase was the largest since CPA began tracking institutional investor votes on its resolution in 2008.
Collision Course: The Risks Companies Face When Their Political Spending and Core Values Conflict, and How To Address Them
This report takes an in depth look at the consequences of political spending by the largest US public companies over the past decade. It examines how companies’ corporate political spending often conflicts with their publicly stated values and the challenges this creates in today’s hyper-polarized environment. Collision Course Report…