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Repeated lobbying by commercial lobbyists and special interests

Groll, Thomas; Ellis, Christopher J. - 2016

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

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Precise control over legislative vote outcomes : a forensic approach to political economics

Matter, Ulrich; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2016

We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise...

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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication

Gersbach, Hans - 2009

We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the platform choices of candidates would exist. Our game with financing of political campaigns exhibits two...

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The influence of special interests and party activists on electoral competition

Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2012

This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....

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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome …

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Optimal utilitarian taxation and horizontal equity

Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - 2003

We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...

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Infinite population utilitarian criteria

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

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The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022

with the postulated social welfare criterion. Utilitarianism redistributes only between individuals with unequal fecundity … information and in order to solve for the incentive problem, utilitarianism recommends also to either tax or subsidize ART …

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The limits to moral erosion in markets : social norms and the replacement excuse

Bartling, Björn; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2017

This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...

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Justifying social discounting : the rank-discounted utilitarian approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010

utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats all generations impartially: discounting becomes the mere expression of … utilitarianism ; sustainability …

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