POLSCI 190 Lecture 14: Corruption and Lobbying as Exchange
7 Mar 2017
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Gave legislators sports tickets, meals, vacations, and other gifts. Induced other interest groups to hire congressional staffers. Supreme court has a restricted views of what constitutes corruption. According to mccutcheon, there must be explicit quid pro quo in order to qualify as corruption. I"ll only give you this money if you vote this way , etc. We"ve been big supporters of you and want to continue, by the way would you insert this tax provision into that bill? , etc. ^^ not seen as corruption by the supreme court. Any attempt to regulate free speech by the court should be very scrutinized. Only to minimize corruption and the appearance of corruption. Abramoff is a vivid case of what constitutes corruption. Defence industry lobbyists gave him cash to help them. Fbi sting operation caught him taking cash bribes from foreign interests. They"re not buying votes, they"re buying time. Donate to members because of how they already vote.
