Es ist etwas faul im Staate Deutschland. Unbehagen und Verdrossenheit sind verbreitet. Das geht nun schon seit Jahren und ist mit der Zeit immer noch schlimmer geworden. Das Unwohlsein hängt im Kern mit einem zentralen Befund zusammen. Die Anforderungen an unser politisches System und die...

En el presente documento analizamos los alcances, limitaciones y consecuencias de la nueva ley de financiamiento de los partidos políticos y las campañas electorales (Ley 25.600). Para ello, nos preguntamos cuáles son las características principales del sistema legal vigente en Argentina en...

The present paper develops a model of endogenous policy making where a 'low regulation' party / and a 'high regulation' party h compete for campaign contributions spent by a dominating low-cost firm within a regulated industry. The model shows that assuming an endogenous market structure...

This paper examines the effects of lobbying activities across international borders, on determining each country's import tariff in a multi-principal, multi-agent, menu-auction model. Cross-border political donations could promote international policy cooperation because of two of their...

The paper considers public funding of political parties when some voters are poorly informed about parties? candidates and campaigns are informative. For symmetric equilibria, it is shown that more public funding leads parties to chose more moderate candidates, and that an increase in the...