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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?
Roberti, Paolo - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703380
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Endogenous institutions : the case of U.S. Congressional redistricting
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay - 2017
We measure where and to what end parties take control of Congressional redistricting, which lets them redraw districts to favor their own candidates. We exploit the discontinuous change in a party's control of redistricting triggered when its share of seats in the state legislature exceeds 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771673
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103631
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126192
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Reinventing Media Activism : Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy, 1960-2002
Mueller, Milton - 2014
1970s, the period of the most rapid rate of growth in the population. We show that most advocacy at this time focused on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069918
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Why does centralisation fail to internalise policy externalities?
Dur, Robert A. J.; Roelfsema, Hein J. - 2003 - Rev.
We provide an explanation why centralisation of political decision makingresults in overspending in some policy domains, whereas too low spending persists in others.We study a model in which delegates from jurisdictions bargain over local public goods provision.If all of the costs of public...
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Suspiciously timed trade disputes
Conconi, Paola; DeRemer, David R.; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 2015
This paper shows that electoral incentives affect the occurrence of trade disputes. Focusing on WTO disputes filed by the United States during the 1995-2012 period, we show that U.S. presidents are more likely to initiate a dispute in the year preceding their re-election date. Moreover, disputes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530066
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The design of political institutions : electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behavior of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746793
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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229882
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The Design of Political Institutions : Electoral Competition and the Choice of Ballot Access Restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2021
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behaviour of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316474