general movement toward trade liberalization in LDCs has made this less of an issue today than it was 20 years ago. Each of …

(MTS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Focus is given to examining the narrowing range of policy options … permissible under international trade and finance agreements, and the adverse effects this can have on countries in earlier stages … trade agreements, that have ostensibly equivalent rules for all contracting parties, may provide a much smaller policy space …

special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …

). Changes within the Federal Trade Commission during the 1970s are reinterpreted in the context of our model. …

of protection. Strategic lobbying by such firms for a price-capping regulatory regime is, under certain conditions, one …. Counter-intuitively, we further discover that lobbying for regulation is to be expected where the incumbent firm is relatively … problem and consider the possibility of co-operation in lobbying. We then show that such co-operation, if possible, is always …