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Contributions to election campaigns are tracked by the National Institute on Money in State Politics. In this paper, we use this data to examine patterns in political campaign contributions made by the insurance industry. We compile a state‐level data set that aggregates over 67,000 election campaign contributions to insurance regulators and governors; we show that candidate incumbency status is associated with a 20% to 30% increase in the share of contributions made to the incumbent insurance regulator's political party. Because incumbents are overwhelmingly favored to win elections, the industry's behavior suggests that insurers are more concerned with access to the elected official than with supporting a candidate that shares the industry's goals.
全国州政治中的金钱研究所（National Institute on Money in State Politics）对竞选捐款进行了跟踪。在本文中，我们利用这些数据研究了保险业政治竞选捐款的模式。我们汇编了一个州一级的数据集，其中汇总了超过 67,000 笔对保险监管机构和州长的竞选捐款；我们的研究表明，候选人的在职状态与现任保险监管机构所在政党获得的捐款份额增加 20% 至 30% 相关。由于现任者在选举中占压倒性优势，该行业的行为表明，保险公司更关心的是如何获得当选官员的支持，而不是支持与该行业目标一致的候选人。
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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