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Should We Tax or Cap Contributions? : A Lobbying Model with Policy Favors and Access
Cotton, Christopher - 2013
This paper develops a model of political contributions in which a politician can either sell policy favors, or sell access. Access allows interest groups to share hard information with the politician in support of their preferred policy. Here selling access maximizes policy utility, while...
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Balancing Competing Demands : Position-Taking and Election Proximity in the European Parliament
Lindstädt, René; Slapin, Jonathan; Vander Wielen, Ryan J. - 2012
Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party line. For members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are national party and European party group pressures. Here, we look at how MEPs respond to those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205867
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Corruption and democracy : what are the issues?
Seger, Alexander - In: Corruption and democracy : political finances, …, (pp. 9-58). 2008
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Corruption and democracy : political finances, conflicts of interest, lobbying, justice
Seger, Alexander (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666349
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Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological
Merlo, Antonio; Paula, Áureo de - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317976
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Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological
Merlo, Antoine; Paula, Áureo de - 2013
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189045
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Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters are Ideological
Merlo, Antonio; de Paula, Aureo - 2011
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We build on the methods introduced by Degan and Merlo (2009) representing elections as Voronoi tessellations of the ideological space. We exploit the properties of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187524
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Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters are Ideological, Second Version
Merlo, Antonio - 2013
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074791
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Importance of status quo when lobbying a coalition government
Aytimur, Refik Emre - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762328
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Bank Lobbying : Regulatory Capture and Beyond
Igan, Deniz - 2018
In this chapter, our goal is to discuss whether and how bank lobbying in the United States leads to regulatory capture …. First, we provide an overview of the importance of and motivations behind bank lobbying. Second, we examine the impact of … lobbying on banking regulation and supervision by reviewing recent empirical evidence. Third, we discuss the effect of the …
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