How do interest groups choose across different venues of lobbying to influence policy? Why do some interest groups … lobby politicians and others lobby bureaucrats? In contrast to the existing approaches that view lobbying as one …-sided action by organized interest in an effort to influence a policy, we theorize lobbying as an organized interests' effort to …

political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …