{"id":1078,"date":"2014-03-13T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-04-13T07:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:43:57","slug":"study-donors-get-more-access-than-constituents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/13\/study-donors-get-more-access-than-constituents\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: &#8220;Donors&#8221; get more access than &#8220;constituents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the WaPo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/\">Post Politics<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a widely accepted truism in Washington: Campaign donations buy access.\u00a0While that belief governs much about the way politics operate, there\u2019s a surprising lack of scientific evidence to bolster that assumption, which is the subject of substantial academic debate.\u00a0Two political science graduate students are now seeking to bring some precision to that discussion through the kind of randomized, controlled study used to test the impact of pharmaceuticals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/03\/11\/ready-for-a-surprise-money-does-equal-access-in-washington\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the WaPo&#8217;s Post Politics: It\u2019s a widely accepted truism in Washington: Campaign donations buy access.\u00a0While that belief governs much about the way politics operate, there\u2019s a surprising lack of scientific evidence to bolster that assumption, which is the subject of substantial academic debate.\u00a0Two political science graduate students are now seeking to bring some precision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/13\/study-donors-get-more-access-than-constituents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: &#8220;Donors&#8221; get more access than &#8220;constituents&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[12,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}