effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …

distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are … show that rents can promote political stability, but only when the political power is sufficiently concentrated. Indeed, if …

parties ; ideological predispositions ; electoral power ; post-elections lobbying ; enforced party discipline … given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …

We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …

of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …

We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income … private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

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

studies how lobbying by both groups shapes the government’s policy. We find that downtown retailers typically have steeper … lobbying contribution schedules than superstores, which induces the government to underprice central roads and parking spaces …, extending the model to allow for lobbying by residents within the downtown retail district we find that residents may lobby for …