financing

(noun)

A transaction that provides funds for a business.

Related Terms

Examples of financing in the following topics:

  • Campaign Financing

    • Campaign finance in the United States refers to the process of financing electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • Campaign finance in the United States refers to the process of financing electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • Although most campaign spending is privately financed, public financing is available for qualifying US presidential candidates during both the primaries and the general election.
    • Political finance refers to all funds that are raised and spent for political purposes.
    • Describe the nature of and uses for campaign finance in the United States

  • Regulating Campaign Finance

    • Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • At the federal level, campaign finance law is enacted by Congress and enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent federal agency.
    • Although most campaign spending is privately financed, public financing is available for qualifying candidates for President of the United States during both the primaries and the general election.
    • Republican Tom Tancredo and Democrats Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and John Edwards elected to take public financing.

  • Campaign Finance Reform

    • ., campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort to change the involvement of money in political campaigns.
    • Although attempts to regulate campaign finance by legislation date back to 1867, the first successful attempts nationally to regulate and enforce campaign finance originated in the 1970s.
    • In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act, requiring broad disclosure of campaign finance.
    • The voting with dollars plan would establish a system of modified public financing coupled with an anonymous campaign contribution process.
    • Identify major legislative and judicial milestones in campaign finance reform in the United States

  • The Federal Election Campaign Act

    • The amendment also created the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent agency responsible for regulating campaign finance legislation .
    • As early as 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt asserted the need for campaign finance reform and called for legislation to ban corporate contributions for political purposes.
    • Without a central administrative authority, campaign finance laws were difficult to enforce.
    • Congress established the income tax checkoff to provide financing for Presidential general election campaigns and national party conventions.
    • Describe the history of campaign finance regulation in the twentieth century

  • Interest Groups vs. Political Parties

    • Advocacy groups exert influence on political parties, mostly through campaign finance.
    • It was financed mainly by large corporations and industrial interests.
    • The main way groups exert their influence is through campaign finance.
    • It was financed mainly by large corporations and industrial interests .

  • Sources of Campaign Funding

    • Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • At the federal level, campaign finance law is enacted by Congress and enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent federal agency.
    • Although most campaign spending is privately financed, public financing is also available for qualifying candidates for President of the United States during both the primaries and the general election.
    • Technically, almost all political committees, including state, local, and federal candidate committees, traditional political action committees, "Super PACs", and political parties are "527s. " However, in common practice the term is usually applied only to such organizations that are not regulated under state or federal campaign finance laws because they do not "expressly advocate" for the election or defeat of a candidate or party.

  • The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

    • The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that regulates the financing of political campaigns.
    • The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 is a United States federal law amending the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 regulating the financing of political campaigns.
    • The Act addresses the increased role of soft money in campaign financing by prohibiting national political party committees from raising or spending funds not subject to federal limits.
    • Analyze the history of legal challenges to campaign finance reform legislation

  • The Modern Political Campaign

    • Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • At the federal level, campaign finance law is enacted by Congress and enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent federal agency.
    • Although most campaign spending is privately financed, public financing is available for qualifying candidates for President of the United States during both the primaries and the general election.

  • Cultivating Access

    • One of the ways in which lobbyists gain access is through assisting congresspersons with campaign finance by arranging fundraisers, assembling PACs, and seeking donations from other clients.

  • Providing Public Services

    • A public service is a service that is provided by government to people living within its jurisdiction, either directly or by financing private provision of services.
    • Even where public services are neither publicly provided nor publicly financed, for social and political reasons, they are usually subject to regulation that go beyond those public services which apply to most economic sectors.