"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 …

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 …

begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the … politicians, the more veto players there are; the less important are exogenous shocks, and the more difficult it is for … politicians and special interests to forge credible agreements, the lower the costs of crisis are. Though these predictions differ …