We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups … choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision … higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …

disputes that assertion from an intertemporal perspective, drawing from transaction cost economics and repeated game theory and …

This paper surveys recent approaches towards lobbying if interest groups influence the decision of an incumbent … of further research. -- lobbying ; interest groups ; political decision making ; contribution payments ; information …