Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of … highest weight of all principals and special interest groups lie in between. A politician's personal ideology plays no … substantial role in legislative decisions. We explore conflict among principals as well as heterogeneity among politicians. Our …

Based on the two main channels of influence seeking, contribution payments and informational lobbying, we survey … empirical studies about lobbying in Germany and discusses the available data and research approaches. Based on two novel data … sets, we provide first insights towards further steps of empirical lobbying research. Given the overall lack of available …

demonstrating that environmentalists can be favourable to a decrease in the local environmental policy. The impact of lobbying …

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and …

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and … diminishes discouragement in weaker contestants. The impact on revenue is more intricate. In contrast to theory, a strict bid …-cap does not increase revenue, but a mild bid-cap can increase revenue even when not predicted by theory. Our data also show …

not clear, however, whether this premise holds. In particular, political ideology might influence voting on taxes. We use …).We use various treatments to understand the role of mobility and ideology in tax choice. We observe substantial deviations …, political ideology matters: left-leaning households choose higher taxes than right-leaning persons, and center-right leaning …