Money, Politics and Medicine: The American Medical Political Action Committee's Strategy of Giving in U.S. House Races

(Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, April 1999) This research project challenged the prevailing perception in the public health community that the American Medical Association's PAC rewards and punishes members of Congress for their roll call votes. This perception was based on prominent studies demonstrating a statistically significant association between voting positions and average contributions. We show that this association is no longer significant when indicators of the AMAÕs desire for access and the promotion of a conservative political agenda are introduced into the same model.

John Wilkerson and David Carrell (University of Washington)