campaign contribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcampaignandcontribution
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campaign
noun[C]
uk/kæmˈpeɪn/us/kæmˈpeɪn/
a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofcampaignandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcampaign contribution
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Given the large number of policy dimensions, and hence the large number of lobbyists, eachcampaigncontribution is assumed to be negligible in its effect on re-election prospects.
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Payment may also show up indirectly in the form of acampaigncontribution.
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Law 222 requires strict campaign finance reporting and modernizescampaigncontributionlimits.
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Payments to influence politicians in the modern age typically come in the form of acampaigncontribution.
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He was accused of curtailing a 1956 investigation into the organization after receiving a $40,000campaigncontribution.
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Downs testified at trial that he accepted the money under the impression that it was a belatedcampaigncontribution.
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Brown had a $1000campaigncontributionshoved under his door returned to the donor.
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However, their data showed no differences in political protest activities, and only minor differences for campaign work, campaign contributions and board membership.
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Politicians who support collective bargaining with laws and other services skim off their share of the rent in the form of campaign contributions.
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The contributors may have invested campaign contributions mostly for particularistic benefits (subsidies, regulations, and tax breaks) that both parties trafficked in.
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So these politicians pick policies that will maximize some function of public welfare and campaign contributions.
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In exchange for bribes and campaign contributions, leaders made policies that benefited the few at the expense of the many.
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Mutz (1995) finds that the media coverage of a candidate's potential political support in presidential primaries affects campaign contributions raised.
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Campaign contributions may not 'buy' votes in any crude sense; a good deal of evidence suggests that they do not.
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The attractiveness of this position helped to focus business lobbying and campaign contributions as well as criticisms of the administration by commentators in the mass media.
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Prat notes that this formulation stacks the deck in favour of campaign contributions, since it emphasizes the usefulness of campaign expenditures.
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These theoretical advancements have illuminated many issues such as campaign contributions and lobbying,6 but, in omitting ideological variables, bias in explaining institutional change may occur.
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But this will mean in equilibrium that high-quality candidates will trade favours for lobbyists in exchange for campaign contributions and will thereby increase their re-election rates.
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