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 …

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 …

law (Smith, 2001, chap. 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption and lobbying might influence the … efficiency of the rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how legal lobbying, which is corruption in V irginia …

which multiple sources of information – from the bureaucracy, an interest group, or a legislature’s own in-house development … – can be brought to bear on policy. Lobbyists begin this process by selecting a venue – Congress or a standing bureaucracy …

democracy on economic performance, providing evidence of a non-linear relationship between democracy and economic growth …. Regions with high levels of democracy, as well as strong autocracies, perform better than hybrid regimes. Second, this article … considers the influence of the size of the bureaucracy on economic outcomes and confirms the “grabbing hand” view on bureaucracy …

bureaucratization of education is used as a tool to reveal the ratio between democracy and bureaucracy in the process of establishing …

society consists of rich and poor individuals. The rich are initially in power, but expect to transition to democracy, which …. This enables them to reduce the amount of redistribution and public good provision in democracy. Moreover, the inefficient … rents for bureaucrats than would an efficient state structure. When the poor come to power in democracy, they will reform …