– particularly in spaces for user-generated content (UGC) – and in suggesting how policy might be written to account for user rights …

lending. Optimism leads to the opposite conclusion, at least if it is legitimate to use fiscal policy to counteract systematic …

higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators …

. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing … empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect the stringency of environmental policy …. Moreover, political competition tends to raise policy stringency, in particular where citizens’ participation in the democratic …