government. The results imply the underpinnings of a political economy equilibrium that will be hard to dislodge. "--World Bank …

the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …

Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the … preferential trade"--World Bank web site …

"There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …

larger effort in the group to understand the political economy of good policy"--World Bank web site …