Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1784, USA.
Disasters. 2010 Jul;34(3):593-607. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01158.x. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
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.
本研究探讨了政治竞选捐款、游说活动与卡特里娜飓风后的清理和重建合同之间的关系。具体而言，采用病例对照研究设计来确定在 2000-04 年选举周期中向国家候选人的竞选捐款以及/或聘用说客和游说公司是否会增加公司获得飓风后合同的可能性。结果表明，竞选捐款的二分变量和捐款金额都与公司是否获得合同显著相关，但游说活动则不然。这些发现是在以前关于自然灾害政治、政府承包以及政府和企业违规行为的研究背景下讨论的。
