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Influencing Connected Legislators
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...
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The Political Economics of Non-Democracy
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2022
We survey recent theoretical and empirical literature on political economics of non-democracies. Dictators face many challenges to their rule: internal, such as palace coups or breakdown of their support coalition, or external, such as mass protests or revolutions. We analyze strategic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289026
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Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining
Helpman, Elhanan; Persson, Torsten - 2022
We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems … policies generated are not intermediate between policies that would result from pure lobbying or from pure legislative … contributions are very small, despite the fact that lobbying has a marked effect on policies …
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Electoral Competition and Special Interest Politics
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We study the competition between two political parties for seats in a parliament. The parliament will set two types of policies: ideological and non-ideological. The parties have fixed positions on the ideological issues, but choose their non-ideological platforms to attract voters and campaign...
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Deposit Insurance : Theories and Facts
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2016
Economic theories posit that bank liability insurance is designed as serving the public interest by mitigating systemic risk in the banking system through liquidity risk reduction. Political theories see liability insurance as serving the private interests of banks, bank borrowers, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992658
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Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2016
We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of electoral systems and different degrees of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996383
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Special Interests and the Media : Theory and an Application to Climate Change
Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2015
A journalist reports to a voter on an unknown, policy-relevant state. Competing special interests can make claims that contradict the facts but seem credible to the voter. A reputational incentive to avoid taking sides leads the journalist to report special interests' claims to the voter. In...
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Integrated Political Strategy
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...
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International Trade and Institutional Change
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of international trade on the quality of institutions, such as contract enforcement, property rights, or investor protection. It presents a model in which imperfect institutions create rents for some parties within the economy, and are a source of comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117386
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The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective
Landes, William M.; Posner, Richard A. - 2021
-group theory of government. Part I of this paper explains our theory of the independent judiciary. Part II discusses several … implications of the theory, relating to administrative regulation, the form of interest-group legislation, the tenure of judges …
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