. -- party and candidate financing, lobbying ; interest groups ; experts ; information transmission ; contributions ; influence … relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … political decision to be taken and offer a simple model in which the optimal influence strategy is a mixture of both lobbying …

campaign contributions to ideologically neutral politicians who are often pivotal voters in the legislature. However, if … politicians who share similar policy preferences to win the election. Thus, liberal (conservative) interest groups will make … campaign contributions to liberal (conservative, respectively) politicians. In this paper, I first develop a model …

unresolved. By combining the campaign contributions literature with the work on politicians intrinsically valuing policy outcomes …, we offer a simple test that examines how politicians' voting patterns change when they retire and no longer face the … threat of lost campaign contributions. If contributions are causing individual politicians to vote differently, there should …

Whom should an interest group lobby in a legislature? I develop a model of informational lobbying in which a … the analysis. First, the model rationalizes both friendly and confrontational lobbying, predicting circumstances in which … friendly lobbying prevails over confrontational lobbying. Second, the model establishes a relationship between information …

become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …