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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and … limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of … over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in early 1998. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471024
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Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security
Mulligan, Casey B. - 1999
Why are the old politically successful? We build a simple interest group model in which political pressure is time-intensive, showing that in the political competitive equilibrium each group lobbies for government policies that lower their own value of time but that the old do so to a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471677
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Political Economics and Public Finance
Persson, Torsten - 1999
political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the possible interactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471701
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The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective
Landes, William M. - 1975
-group theory of government. Part I of this paper explains our theory of the independent judiciary. Part II discusses several … implications of the theory, relating to administrative regulation, the form of interest-group legislation, the tenure of judges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479017
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What Governments Maximize and Why : The View from Trade
Gawande, Kishore - 2009
Policy making power enables governments to redistribute income to powerful interests in society. However, some governments exhibit greater concern for aggregate welfare than others. This government behavior may itself be endogenously determined by a number of economic, political and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463696
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Competition and Political Organization : Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?
Bombardini, Matilde - 2009
This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463876
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Foreign Influence and Welfare
Antràs, Pol - 2008
How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal tariffs. We develop a two-country voting model of electoral competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464516
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Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2007
We model how lobbying by interest groups affects the level of investor protection. In our model, insiders in existing … under which this lobbying game has an inefficiently low equilibrium level of investor protection. Factors that operate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464944
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Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?
Imai, Susumu - 2006
This paper asks whether the results obtained from using the standard approach to testing the influential Grossman and Helpman "protection for sale (PFS)" model of political economy might arise from a simpler setting. A model of imports and quotas with protection occurring in response to import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466410
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Buy, Lobby or Sue : Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey
Spiller, Pablo T. - 2006
The participation of interest groups in public policy making is unavoidable. Its unavoidable nature is only matched by the universal suspicion with which it has been seen by both policy makers and the public. Recently, however, there has been a growing literature that examines the participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466460