| This thesis aims to determine the effects of government funding on the probability of engaging in, and also the level of, nonprofit political advocacy. It evaluates a logistic regression to regress whether or not an organization engages in advocacy on government funding, the main independent variable of focus, as well as various controls for internal organizational structure and external organizational environment. It also evaluates a continuous model, regressing the same variables on the amount spent on advocacy. The primary contribution is that it stratifies these regressions by 501(h) elector status, producing four separate regression equations. I find that government funding has a positive effect on the probability of engaging in advocacy for non-electors, a negative effect on the level of advocacy for the same, but no effect on either probability or level for 501(h) electors. I then discuss the policy implications of the 501(h) election and other policy proposals regarding nonprofit advocacy. |
