The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Strong Corporate Support for Robust Political Disclosure and Accountability – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Strong Corporate Support for Robust Political Disclosure and Accountability https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/01/2025-cpa-zicklin-index-finds-strong-corporate-support-for-robust-political-disclosure-and-accountability/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2025-cpa-zicklin-index-finds-strong-corporate-support-for-robust-political-disclosure-and-accountability https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/01/2025-cpa-zicklin-index-finds-strong-corporate-support-for-robust-political-disclosure-and-accountability/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:32:26 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=177844?d=20251125150925EST Posted by Dan Carroll, David Pahlic, and Bruce Freed, Center for Political Accountability, on Monday, December 1, 2025
Editor's Note:

Dan Carroll is the Vice President, David Pahlic is the Director, and Bruce Freed is the President at Center for Political Accountability. This post is based on the 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index.

The number of leading U.S. companies with the most robust policies for transparency and accountability around their political spending increased significantly from 103 in 2024 to 112 this year, according to the recently released 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index.

These public companies scoring 90 percent or above in the benchmarking study, designated Trendsetters, comprised more than 22 percent of all S&P 500 companies evaluated. This reflected a continuing trend “despite [companies] facing the greatest pressures of a lifetime,” in a period of turmoil and national division, the study said.

The 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, the annual benchmarking of the political disclosure and accountability policies of the Russell 1000, was released at an event at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It is a joint effort of the Center for Political Accountability, a Washington, DC based non-profit, and The Wharton School’s Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics.

For the first time, representatives of five major U.S. public companies – all of them Trendsetters – participated in the announcement event. From the telecommunications, payments technology, and utilities sectors, the companies in attendance were Visa Inc. (Index score of 100.0 percent); Comcast Corp. (94.3 percent); Consolidated Edison Inc. (100.0 percent); Sempra (100.0 percent); and FirstEnergy Corp. (94.3 percent). Each were awarded certificates for earning Trendsetter status; all other Trendsetter companies are receiving the recognition digitally.

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