lobbying are not restricted to the lobby's host-country but spill over to other member countries and have ambiguous effects on …

Based on the two main channels of influence seeking, contribution payments and informational lobbying, we survey … empirical studies about lobbying in Germany and discusses the available data and research approaches. Based on two novel data … sets, we provide first insights towards further steps of empirical lobbying research. Given the overall lack of available …

to reduce the intensity of the lobbying contest. This logic has been explored in a number of recent papers. I reconsider … to maximize lobbying expenditures would prefer an imperfectly discriminating contest. … dominierter Strategien überlebt. Folglich kämpfen die Grupen nicht wirklich, und es gibt keine Rentendissipation. Ein Politiker …

Groups not only as a long run phenomenon but also in a short-run perspective, integrating it into the theory of political …-groups theory and the endeavors of governments to win the majority of votes in elections could look like, before we perform a time …

. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one policy over another to make the lobbying opposition less …

how the changing institutional constraints faced by both politicians and bankers can account for changes in France …

is used to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed graphical … the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … association between the average US tariff on goods that benefit from US export subsidies and lobbying spending; and no association …