How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

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 … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient …