FollowTheMoney.org
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Follow The Money: The Institute on Money in State Politics
Description
The Institute on Money in State Politics is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level. The Institute develops searchable databases, makes them available to the public online, and analyzes the information to determine the role campaign money plays in public policy debates in the states. The Institute also publishes studies and provides technical assistance and training to reporters, academic researchers and public interest groups that work on state policy issues.
The Institute was launched as a national organization in 1999, expanding on a 7-year-old project that had gathered campaign-finance data in eight Western states.
While comprehensive information on campaign-finances for federal candidates had always been available through the Federal Election Commission, no such information existed for state-level candidates. Little standardized, searchable data was available in the early 1990s.
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