Campaign Expenditures in the United States, 1978-1992: Longitudinal Political Action Committee (PAC) Data

<p>This collection provides a longitudinal summary compilation of political action committee (PAC) campaign contributions previously released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These data were taken directly from campaign finance reports filed by PACs, which are required to file such information under the federal election laws. This collection contains one record for each PAC. Variables include total contributions made to incumbents and nonincumbents, Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate candidates, candidates running and candidates not running, and general election winners and losers. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)</p>
<p><strong>Please Note</strong>: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at <a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06335.v1">https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06335.v1</a>. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.</p>