Compared to the 1980s and 1990s, a larger share of money in elections is coming from ______.

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Campaign contributions have become heavily concentrated at the top: very wealthy households now supply a larger share of election money than they did in the 1980s and 1990s.

Relevant concepts: campaign finance sources (individual donors, small-dollar donors, political parties, corporations, unions, PACs/Super PACs), legal changes that affect giving (court decisions like Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United), and measures of concentration (percent of total raised coming from the top X donors).

Step-by-step reasoning:
1. Identify the trend: Over recent decades the dollar share of contributions coming from the richest donors has risen. Legal changes and institutional innovations (Super PACs, dark-money groups) expanded avenues for wealthy households to give very large sums, either directly or through independent expenditures.
2. Mechanism: Wealthy households can make the maximum allowed direct contributions and also finance unlimited independent expenditures via Super PACs or give to nonprofits that run ads. This multiplies their influence compared with the average small-dollar donor.
3. Illustrative calculation (conceptual): If total contributions in an election cycle are $1,000,000 and in the 1980s the top 100 donors contributed $200,000 (20%), but now those same-size top donors give $600,000 (60%), the share from the very wealthy has tripled. This hypothetical shows how a small number of very wealthy households can dominate totals.
4. Why the correct answer fits: Empirical research and public reporting consistently show increased concentration of contributions among the wealthiest households; thus the larger share is coming from very wealthy households rather than broadly distributed small donors.

Why other sources are incorrect: Small donors have grown in number but still account for a smaller fraction of total dollars; corporations and unions face legal and regulatory limits and often give through PACs rather than directly; political parties’ direct funding has not displaced the rise of wealthy individual giving.

Conclusion: Therefore, the larger share of money in elections compared to the 1980s and 1990s is coming from very wealthy households, which matches the provided answer.

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