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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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 17:33, 16 September 2009
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 FollowTheMoney.Org. The 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 full list of methods that can be called through the API, with links to their documentation, is provided.
