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 …

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …

"informational lobbying market" and can be easily incentivized by policymakers to truthfully reveal private information. We also show …

of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both … social planner. However, if lobbying is costly, only one sector finds it profitable to offer monetary contribution and direct … resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative …