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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...
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Trade Policy Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining
Celik, Levent - 2011
In democracies, trade policy is the result of interactions among many agents with different agendas. In accordance with this observation, we construct a dynamic model of legislative trade policy-making in the realm of distributive politics. An economy consists of different sectors, each of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461395
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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics
Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696383
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616568
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How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2007
review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465189
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Putting the Lid on Lobbying : Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth when Protection is for Sale
Nunn, Nathan - 2006
It has long been recognized that a country's tariffs are the endogenous outcome of a rent-seeking game whose equilibrium reflects national institutions. Thus, the structure of tariffs across industries provides insights into how institutions, as reflected in tariff policies, affect long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466530
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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy
Gawande, Kishore - 2005
investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467312
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Influencing Connected Legislators
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455941
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Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying : The Rise of Private Health Insurance In the United States
Alsan, Marcella; Neberai, Yousra; Ye, Xingyou - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
that used ideology to influence the behavior and views of ordinary citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544762
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Competitive Capture of Public Opinion
Alonso, Ricardo; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We propose a general equilibrium model where two special interest groups (SIGs) compete to influence public opinion. Citizens with heterogeneous priors over a binary state of the world receive reports drawn from a continuous message space by a variety of sources. The two opposite SIGs attempt to...
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