{"id":6105,"date":"2011-11-02T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2011-11-02T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:21:22","slug":"study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/11\/02\/study\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Grades Companies\u2019 Political Transparency: Berkshire Hathaway, Disney Rank Lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/study-grades-companies-political-transparency-berkshire-hathaway-disney-rank-lowest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6106\" title=\"Study Grades Companies\u2019 Political Transparency: Berkshire Hathaway, Disney Rank Lowest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/111102_pd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalaccountability.net\/index.php?ht=a\/GetDocumentAction\/i\/5800\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> conducted by the non-profit, non-partisan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalaccountability.net\/index.php?ht=d\/Home\/pid\/184\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Political Accountability<\/a> with the Zicklin Center at University of Pennsylvania\u00c2\u00a0examines how major\u00c2\u00a0businesses\u00c2\u00a0spend money to influence politics. The study identified a total of 29 indicators to gauge disclosure,  policies, compliance and oversight of all of the top S&amp;P 100  companies in order to assess companies on political transparency and  accountability. 14 companies tied for the worst possible score,  including Disney, Amazon, NIKE and Warren Buffet\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway.  The four companies with the top possible score were Colgate-Palmolive  Co., Exelon Corp., IBM and Merck. The study also outlines what it describes to be \u201cstriking findings\u201d that: Voluntary disclosure of political spending is becoming a mainstream corporate practice; A growing number of companies are putting restrictions on the political use of their money. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/study-grades-companies-political-transparency-berkshire-hathaway-disney-rank-lowest\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Disney, Amazon, Nike, Berkshire Hathaway, Colgate-Palmolive  Co., Exelon Corp., IBM, Merck | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/study-grades-companies-political-transparency-berkshire-hathaway-disney-rank-lowest\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Blaze<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study conducted by the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Political Accountability with the Zicklin Center at University of Pennsylvania\u00c2\u00a0examines how major\u00c2\u00a0businesses\u00c2\u00a0spend money to influence politics. The study identified a total of 29 indicators to gauge disclosure, policies, compliance and oversight of all of the top S&amp;P 100 companies in order to assess companies on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[687,688,689,97,329,39,40,65],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-berkshire-hathaway","tag-colgate-palmolive-co","tag-disney","tag-exelon-corp","tag-ibm","tag-merck-co","tag-nike","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}