Damages caps both drain rival funding and attract industry donations

Evidence

Similarly, Ed Lazarus, a Democratic strategist, described tort reform as a “double header” because it worked both to “defund the Democratic Party”—by choking off tort damage awards—and to provide increased support to the Republicans by motivating donations by those industries negatively impacted by tort awards, including the pharmaceutical industry. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Two-sided entrenchment mechanism — cutting opponents’ resources while boosting one’s own — parallels what the reader is mapping in institutional durability of ideology. — connects to: Institutions promoted flawed property-titling projects as successes to secure further funding — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1933

Broader Connections

• Institutions promoted flawed property-titling projects as successes to secure further funding #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1933