The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first …, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition … or the elected policy maker in a citizen- candidate model of electoral competition) are conceived as 'agents'. In the …

turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition … special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political …

on the nexus between pre-election interest group lobbying and electoral competition. …Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or …

size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …

This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …