Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human … connections in the presence of convex costs of networking. -- nominations ; rent-seeking ; networks ; politicians ; procurement …

A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political … candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education … politicians ; candidate selection ; gender differences in politics …

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to …

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 …