clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

what condition an interest group prefers to direct its lobbying efforts to two parties or the two coalition and opposition … discipline. The lobbying efforts under un-enforced and enforced party discipline are also compared. Finally, we clarify the … parties ; ideological predispositions ; electoral power ; post-elections lobbying ; enforced party discipline …

prizes has the perverse effect of increasing their aggregate lobbying efforts. …

components: expected social welfare and lobbying efforts. The welfare component has a positive or no effect on the utility while … the lobbying efforts have a positive, negative or no effect on the utility (ii) introducing the political culture of the …

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first … demonstrate that in the latter setting, the compromising effect of lobbying need not exist. Our reduced-form, two-stage public …) desires to suckle thereby threatening the public well being more than the lobbying interest groups. The main result specifies …

lobbying activities. …

examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … chronic poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …