In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying …

special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …

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 deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …

. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …

-identical producers within the same industry, lobbying for tighter environmental rules turns out to be an important strategy of raising …-industrial competition engage in counter-lobbying and when they remain silent. …

We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a … restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both … firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect …