become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

We develop a model of lobbying in which a time and resource constrained policymaker first chooses which policy …

We challenge the prevailing view that pure informational lobbying (in the absence of political contributions and … evidence distortion or withholding) leads to better informed policymaking. In the absence of lobbying, the policymaker may … channels through which informational lobbying is detrimental, in the sense of leading to worse policy and possibly less …