implementation of market-liberalizing reforms. Employing panel data over the period 1970-2002, we present empirical evidence based on …, union executives tend to impede reforms. We also highlight interactions between profession and education with time in office …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

lobbying industry. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect … behalf. Our analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in … legislating, we are able to explain why the share of commercial lobbyist activity in total lobbying has risen dramatically and now …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these … reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to … enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense of others. This critique, coupled with the claim that many of the reforms …

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these … reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to … enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense of others. This critique, coupled with the claim that many of the reforms …