have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of … Internet. Using a new dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, we find a strong statistical relationship between …

interests groups have on legislators' policy positions. In so doing, we exploit the Internet service blackout of January 2012 as … of property rights on the Internet. Using a newly compiled dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, which capture …

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 …

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …