How the Little People Choose: PAC Decisionmaking in the PHH Group, Inc., and the National Air Traffic Controllers' Association

In the 1991–92 election cycle, approximately 75 percent of all PAC contributions came from only 8 percent of the 4,729 PACs registered with the Federal Election Commission. ¹ While most scholarly and popular attention has been focused on these few, there are also a large number of political action committees that raise and contribute small amounts. They can be found among all PAC types—corporate, labor, membership, and ideological—and they have widely diverse organizational forms and political strategies.