First, we avoid selection bias by randomizing whether and to whom influence-mediating messages are sent.
Regarding the money managers themselves, kickbacks, campaign contributions and various other forms of influence-peddling are commonplace.
The finance minister remains vulnerable to a scandal involving a former adviser accused of influence-trafficking.
Most big media outlets have murky ownership, leaving their journalists vulnerable to outside pressure and influence-peddling.
It must now decide whether there is any merit to claims of influence-peddling against Mr Miquilena.
But where backers see public financing as a knife into influence-peddling and corruption, opponents see a tax.
The Hindujas' 12-storey headquarters in Haymarket, with its commanding views of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, proved a magnet for influence-peddlers.
And there are other unexplained threads connecting Muslim leaders who are under investigation to Norquist's influence-peddling operation.
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Ms. PEREZ: I would say his hand was probably - and his influence - was probably pretty high.
Weldon's re-election bid was hurt after federal agents searched his daughter's home as part of an influence-peddling investigation.
Business footholds can soon become political bridgeheads, which coupled with weak politics creates a vulnerability to Russian influence-peddling and mischief-making.
On Friday, police arrested six people for allegedly running the influence-peddling ring selling government permits to businesses in return for bribes.
British politics has already been tarnished by scandals over influence-peddling and expenses.
Europeans should have learned by now how endemic and corrosive corruption and influence-peddling are when extensive power is concentrated at the center.
Its interlocking cogs of power and influence -- geopolitical, regional, governmental, tribal, mineral, criminal, spiritual, clan and family -- are fiendishly complex.
On May 5th prosecutors filed yet more charges of bribe-taking and influence-peddling.
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Their close relationship to Cabinet ministers and lobby correspondents give them influence - an influence that can hatch into a political career later on.
Later, press reports linked a former Estrada mistress named Laarni Enriquez, her sister, a presidential third cousin and two professional influence-peddlers to the scandal.
Newspaper revelations last month of his sudden enrichment from political consultancy while a federal congressman from 2006 to 2010 left him open to accusations of influence-peddling.
His reputation has been battered by a series of corruption scandals involving senior government officials and the conviction of two of his sons for influence-peddling and tax-evasion.
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Much of the media will dislike this kind of change because it would reduce their relative influence--with more resources, candidates could take their messages directly to the voters.
When the LDP lost its majority there after the Recruit influence-peddling scandal of the late 1980s, that presaged the party's historic, though temporary, fall from power in 1993.
The lack of appropriate safeguards at the state pension led me to believe more secret payments might have been made to intermediaries for doing little more than influence-peddling.
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It may be better that big companies, which usually have good in-house intelligence and security services, should do their own snooping and influence-peddling and take the rap if caught.
Previous attempts at government reform were hijacked by greedy influence-peddlers.
In its report, the WAO said it "found no evidence of inappropriate ministerial influence - on party-political or other lines - in the Welsh government's decisions about Awema's funding".
The experiment involved the random manipulation of influence-mediating messages sent from a commercial Facebook application that lets users share information and opinions about movies, actors, directors, and the film industry.
For the superrich, money can represent power, prestige, influence--or a certain measure of immortality, if it is ultimately used to finance some visible endeavor like finding a cure for cancer.
The real question is not whether kids can excuse messy phone-hacking and influence-peddling accusations, but whether family responsibilities can be an excuse for shuffling business responsibilities, no matter how small.
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