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 …

Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for … impacts spill over into private sector decision-making. Using data from gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we find strong …

-existing bans, focusing on gubernatorial elections. The results show an 11 percentage point increase in the share of Republican TV …. Negative campaigning also intensified, with a 5.5 percentage point rise in the share of attack ads. Survey and election data …

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome …

elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining … in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying … ; bargaining ; elections …