a recession: (i) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms, and (ii) the relationship between vulnerability, the …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on …

productive middle class to sink their human capital into a relatively unproductive bureaucracy. Thus the bureaucracy serves as an …' incentive to revolt on the one hand and the elite's incentive to subsidize participation in the inefficient bureaucracy on the …

introduce a common-agency lobbying game, where agents attempt to influence the location and provision decisions by the … lobbying game can replicate the optimal solution. Second, under-provision and over-provision of the public good may be obtained … an agglomeration effect. Third, some non-lobbying neighborhoods may be better off than in the case where all …