prove that the provision of incentives to politicians can be separated from the provision of incentives to, and from …

The effects of unproductive lobbying have so far mainly been addressed by the public choice literature on rent … incorporate lobbying into the simple principal-agent framework that was proposed by Holmstr'm/Milgrom (1991). This framework has … lobbying that makes his performance appear better. We show first that the presence of lobbying leads to lower …

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition …

Five German leading parties and their coalitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose …), whereas the most representative is the left party Linke which received only 11.9% votes. As for possible coalitions, the most …

be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be `disconnected'. We then look at how the coalition … formation game affects the incentives for party formation. Our model explains the diverse electoral outcomes seen under …

coalitions that are connected in the organization can effectively object to it, the star organization prevails under positive …