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 …

studies focus their attention on tax compliance factors associated with trust and power. Therefore, this study is dedicated to … fully exploring these factors. The results show that most factors had a significant influence on trust and power. The … compliance. However, the study fails to find evidence of the relationship of power with enforced compliance, although enforced …

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

alternatives. Using J tests to compare the power of the models directly, we find significant misspecification in the Political …

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 …