This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous … ; electoral competition ; lies …

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

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first …, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition … or the elected policy maker in a citizen- candidate model of electoral competition) are conceived as 'agents'. In the …

lobbying contest in order to be bailed out. The firm has an advantage because its probability of winning the contest is …

competition over endogenously determined policies induces strategic restraint that reduces polarization and, in turn, wasteful … lobbying activities. …

just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …

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 …

on the influence of lobbying by both national firms and foreign multinationals on trade policies and the gains from …