weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … what condition an interest group prefers to direct its lobbying efforts to two parties or the two coalition and opposition … discipline. The lobbying efforts under un-enforced and enforced party discipline are also compared. Finally, we clarify the …

. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one policy over another to make the lobbying opposition less …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a …

the right ﾖ use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections …

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings …

expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …