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Alexander Furnas

Alexander C. Furnas is a Research Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he studies the intersection of science, politics, and policy. His research examines how scientific knowledge is produced, funded, and used in political processes, employing survey experiments, text analysis, and network methods, with work published in Science, American Political Science Review, PNAS, and other leading venues.
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The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same

Alexander Furnas
In new research, Alexander Furnas, Timothy LaPira, and Clare Brock find that most politically active organizations engage in either campaign contributions or lobbying, but rarely both.The findings have implications for regulation and future academic research.

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