HANSEN,Wendy L <br/><br/>
Disaggregating and explaing corporate political activity :  domestic and foreign corporations in national politics 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> Corporate political activity is usually operationalized and analyzed as financial contributions to condidates or political parties through political action committees (PACs). Very little attention has been paid to other dimensions, such as lobbying, in a systematic way. On a theoretical level we address the issue of how to conceive  of PAC contributions, lobbying, and the implications of "foreignness" for the different types of corporate political activity. On an empirical level we examine the political activities of Fortune 500 firms, along with an oversampling of U.S. affiliates of large foreign investors for the 1987-88 election cycle