with information (henceforth, inside lobbying) and grassroots mobilizations or advertising their position to voters … (henceforth, outside lobbying). How do these channels interact? I study a signaling model in which a politician chooses the scope … of a reform, two SIGs, one defending the status quo, the other pushing for change, use inside lobbying to bias the …

models are developed to investigate the social welfare implication of the number and size of the lobbying interest groups …. The first addresses social rent dissipation of lobbying activities where individuals in each lobbying group ignore the … lobbying effect on the size of aggregate output of the economy. It is shown that social rent dissipation is lower the larger is …

We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a … restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both … firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect …

's public officials and to understand the role of institutions granting politicians with immunity from legal prosecution. The … less able politicians. Moreover, the possibility of punishment changes the nature of the influence game, so that even … decrease the frequency of corruption and may increase the quality of politicians if the judiciary is weak. These predictions …

bribes, and data on attacks against politicians around the world between 1990 and 2015. Evidence from staggered difference …-in-differences and regression discontinuity in time models shows that in democracies attacks against politicians escalate before …

weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … what condition an interest group prefers to direct its lobbying efforts to two parties or the two coalition and opposition … discipline. The lobbying efforts under un-enforced and enforced party discipline are also compared. Finally, we clarify the …