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To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: Political Business Cycles with Local Governments
Baleiras, Rui Nuno; Costa, José da Silva - EconWPA - 2003
: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy … (namely, on the part of voters) or the common objective functions (re- election chances). Being well grounded in basic … microeconomic theory (welfare maximisation by the individual agent), our model provides another foundation for the emergence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076618
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077062
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135118
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556927
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560982
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Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States, and Congressional Term Limits
Lopez, Edward J.; Jewell, R. Todd - EconWPA - 2005
This paper demonstrates that states’ decisions on limiting congressional terms are empirically determined by measures of relative political influence in Congress. States’ choices on term limits are quantified as a multiple-categorical variable that reflects variation in the stringency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125930
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407808
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Why Do Policy Makers Stick to Inefficient Decisions?
Dur, Robert A.J. - EconWPA - 1999
This paper offers an explanation for why policy makers stick to inefficient policy decisions. I argue that repealing a policy is a bad signal to voters about the policy maker's competence if voters do not have complete knowledge about the effects of implemented policies. I derive the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076606
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The Effects of Campaign Contribution Sources on the Congressional Elections of 1996
II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1997
The debate over campaign-finance reform includes how different sources of campaign contributions affect the outcomes of political campaigns. Using data from the Congressional races of 1996, I find that PAC contributions had a larger effect on the percentage of votes received and campaign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076612
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Salience: Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates
Berliant, Marcus; Konishi, Hideo - EconWPA - 2004
Which issues are discussed by candidates in an election campaign? Why are some issues never discussed? Model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118536