agricultural protection in the US: (i) legislator preferences, (ii) electoral incentives, or (iii) lobbying. Using data on the roll … agricultural protection, but that legislator preferences and lobbying play a role, too. Moreover, legislator preferences and …

being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power holders is tested. The resulting interesting finding is … that, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying increase the probability of state fragility by mitigating the …

In this paper we present a model of the behavior of commercial lobbying firms (such as the so-called K-Street lobbyists … of Washington, D.C.). In contrast to classical special interest groups, commercial lobbying firms represent a variety of … their behalf to policymakers. In our analysis we address two basic questions; why do commercial lobbying firms exist, and …

simultaneously offers a menu contract to a common provider of the public good in order to induce greater supply, and a lobbying game …

lobbying. In a non-cooperative equilibrium, each country chooses the level of R&D subsidy independently and fails to … internalizes technology spillover but is vulnerable to lobbying by politicians from each country, who attempt to free-ride on the …. Furthermore, this threshold is an increasing function in the effectiveness of lobbying. This paper also considers the possibility …

We use a mechanism design approach to study the organization of interest groups in an informational model of lobbying … optimal organization of lobbying favors competition between groups only when their preferences are not too congruent with …