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A Panel Data Analysis of General Elections Under Multi Party Electoral College

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2003

We analyze the probability of an incumbents winning in the consecutive election, under the assumption that all individual candidates are equally likely (i.e. random selection) when they are from the same party. We estimate the probability of winning by ruling party. Using Indian panel data from...

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Reformas Regulatórias e Reestruturação no Setor Elétrico

Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005

shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons … learned from the California electricity crisis is a diagnosis of its causes. This requires a clear understanding of the … federal and state regulatory infrastructure that governs the US electricity supply industry. The structure of California …

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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria South Africa, Chile, Colorado, Mexico and California. …

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policymaker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truthtelling, we show that the...

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Rent-seeking with scarce talent: a model of preemptive hiring

Dakhlia, Sami; Pecorino, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

In the standard model of a rent-seeking contest, firms optimally employ resources in an attempt to win the contest and obtain the rent. Typically, it is assumed that these resources may be hired at any desired level at some fixed, exogenous per-unit cost. In many real-world rent-seeking...

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Corruption and Political Competition

Damania, Richard; Yalcin, Erkan - EconWPA - 2005

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 …

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Environmental Pressure Group Strength and Air Pollution: An Empirical Analysis

Binder, Seth; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2003

There is an established theoretical and empirical case-study literature arguing that environmental pressure groups have a real impact on pollution levels. Our original contribution to this literature is to provide the first systematic quantitative test of the strength of environmental...

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

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Private bills: a theoretical and empirical study of lobbying

Boylan, Richard - EconWPA - 1998

Interest groups lobby over a variety of issues including private bills. There are two striking facts about private bills introduced in the U.S. Congress. First, several scandals have involved Congressmen who were being bribed to introduce a private bill. Second, the number of private bills...

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Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making

Boehmke, Frederick J.; Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper...

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