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Lobbying contests with endogenous policy proposals
Münster, Johannes - 2005
to reduce the intensity of the lobbying contest. This logic has been explored in a number of recent papers. I reconsider … to maximize lobbying expenditures would prefer an imperfectly discriminating contest. … dominierter Strategien überlebt. Folglich kämpfen die Grupen nicht wirklich, und es gibt keine Rentendissipation. Ein Politiker …
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Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities
Boyer, Pierre; Roberson, Brian - 2016
We examine an endogenous, sunk budget extension of Myerson's (1993) two-candidate model of political competition in which candidates simultaneously allocate an exogenous level of a use-it-or-lose-it persuasive advertising resource across a homogeneous electorate of unit measure. We completely...
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Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities
Boyer, Pierre; Roberson, Brian - 2017
We consider campaign competition in which candidates compete for votes among a continuum of voters by engaging in persuasive efforts that are targetable. Each individual voter is persuaded by campaign effort and votes for the candidate who targets more persuasive effort to this voter. Each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956898
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The Effect of Public Financing on the Competitiveness of Elections
Stratmann, Thomas - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of public financing on the competitiveness on elections. It shows that states with public financing have more competitive elections in state assembly races than states without. The paper also analyzes the fortunes of those candidates for the Maine House of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095949
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Winners and losers of early elections : on the welfare implications of political blockades and early elections
Bierbrauer, Felix; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2008
We develop a dynamic model of political competition. Each party has a policymotivated ideological wing and an office-motivated opportunistic wing. A blockade arises if inner-party conflict stops policy implementation. We use this model to study whether early elections should be used to overcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796136
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Winners and losers of early elections : on the welfare implications of political blockades and early elections
Bierbrauer, Felix; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2008
We develop a dynamic model of political competition. Each party has a policymotivated ideological wing and an office-motivated opportunistic wing. A blockade arises if inner-party conflict stops policy implementation. We use this model to study whether early elections should be used to overcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935643
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Chapter 14. Media Bias in the Marketplace : Theory
Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.; Stone, Daniel F. - 2015
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Gambling for re-election
Langtry, Alastair; Potrafke, Niklas; Schlepper, Marcel; … - 2024
economic decision-making – is important in politics. We show that politicians ‘gamble for re-election’ in the context of a …
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Competitive trilateral lobbying for and against subsidizing green energy
Pethig, Rüdiger - 2011
lobbying Nash equilibrium. We show how the resultant subsidy depends on the political influence of all three lobbying groups … lobbying, …
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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806719