title: Campaign contributions, lobbying and post-Katrina contracts.
abstract: This research explores the relationship between political campaign contributions, lobbying and post-Hurricane Katrina cleanup and reconstruction contracts. Specifically, a case-control study design is used to determine whether campaign contributions to national candidates in the 2000-04 election cycles and/or the employment of lobbyists and lobbying firms increased a company's probability of receiving a post-hurricane contract. Results indicate that both a campaign contribution dichotomous variable and the dollar amount of contributions are significantly related to whether a company received a contract, but that lobbying activity was not. These findings are discussed in the context of previous research on the politics of natural disasters, government contracting and governmental and corporate deviance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1784, USA. michael.hogan@Colostate.edu
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Paul B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Stretesky
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D032982:Contracts / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D055867:Cyclonic Storms / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008119:Lobbying; D016015:Logistic Models; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011057:Politics; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States