In this paper we use cross-state panel data to show a positive and significant correlation between various measures of … on the top 1% income share are dampened in states with higher lobbying intensity. Finally, from cross-section regressions … less so by incumbent innovators, and it is dampened in states with higher lobbying intensity. Overall, our findings …

political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the possible interactions …

the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available … evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation …-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislative lobbying, and find that lobbying falls …

using state-level panel data on Gubernatorial environmental policy choices over the years 1960-2000. In contrast to the … popular view that choices on secondary policy instruments are largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of …