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, 17:32, 16 September 2009New page: This project proposes examining political contributions by Venture Capitalists to address two basic questions: #Are political contributions by venture capitalists systematic and meaningful...
This project proposes examining political contributions by Venture Capitalists to address two basic questions:
#Are political contributions by venture capitalists systematic and meaningful?
#Are contributions related to a competition effect between private and government-sponsored venture capitalists? This might be attributable to either:
##A Crowding-Out Effect
##That the presence of GVCs gives entrepreneurs an outside option in negotiation with PVCs, reducing their bargaining surplus
==Data on Political Contributions==
This project uses data from [http://www.followthemoney.org FollowTheMoney.Org]. The [http://www.followthemoney.org/services/document.phtml Basic documentation on the API] states that requests should be of the form:
http://api.followthemoney.org/api_method.php?key=123456789ABCDEF
where the key is the user assigned key. Error codes are returned as XML in the format:
<error code="101" text="access denied - restricted api" origin="National Institute on Money in State Politics" process_timestamp="08-21-2006 17:20:43" update_timestamp="08-17-2006 03:15:00">
A [http://www.followthemoney.org/services/methods.phtml full list of methods that can be called through the API], with links to their documentation, is provided.
#Are political contributions by venture capitalists systematic and meaningful?
#Are contributions related to a competition effect between private and government-sponsored venture capitalists? This might be attributable to either:
##A Crowding-Out Effect
##That the presence of GVCs gives entrepreneurs an outside option in negotiation with PVCs, reducing their bargaining surplus
==Data on Political Contributions==
This project uses data from [http://www.followthemoney.org FollowTheMoney.Org]. The [http://www.followthemoney.org/services/document.phtml Basic documentation on the API] states that requests should be of the form:
http://api.followthemoney.org/api_method.php?key=123456789ABCDEF
where the key is the user assigned key. Error codes are returned as XML in the format:
<error code="101" text="access denied - restricted api" origin="National Institute on Money in State Politics" process_timestamp="08-21-2006 17:20:43" update_timestamp="08-17-2006 03:15:00">
A [http://www.followthemoney.org/services/methods.phtml full list of methods that can be called through the API], with links to their documentation, is provided.
