demonstrating that environmentalists can be favourable to a decrease in the local environmental policy. The impact of lobbying …

Groups not only as a long run phenomenon but also in a short-run perspective, integrating it into the theory of political …-groups theory and the endeavors of governments to win the majority of votes in elections could look like, before we perform a time …

become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

create doubt about scientific information, we use a signaling model of interest-group lobbying in which the policymaker has … persuasion to imply that the NGO may be a radical extremist whose lobbying is not credible. The second involves the creation of a …