This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about … increase the effect of lobbying. If, however, the cost of running for office is sufficiently large, there is no effect of … lobbying on policy. The model thus demonstrates that uncertainty on the influence of special interests can lead to large …

the reform's initial success having a negative impact on its political sustainability. Second, we demonstrate that greater … state capacity, to make compensatory transfers to those adversely affected by reform, need not always help the political … sustainability of reform, but can also hinder it. Finally, we argue that in ethnically divided societies, economic reform may be …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

extent of redistribution. In this setting, trade liberalization is politically viable as long as the losers from trade are … may be limited political support for redistribution, and those who are left behind by globalization - namely unskilled … - by favoring the ascent of the educated class and thus eroding the political support for redistribution - may ultimately …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …