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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Discourse and Regulation Failures : The Ambivalent Influence of NGOs on Political Organizations
Will, Matthias Georg; Pies, Ingo - 2014
In the last decades, NGOs have become an important participant in the work of political organizations (e.g., national authorities, the EU or the UN). This development brings many opportunities and also some challenges, including discourse failure which is one of the topics discussed in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149679
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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?
Roberti, Paolo - 2016
This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about … increase the effect of lobbying. If, however, the cost of running for office is sufficiently large, there is no effect of … lobbying on policy. The model thus demonstrates that uncertainty on the influence of special interests can lead to large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703380
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103631
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126192
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Mass Media and Special Interest Groups
Petrova, Maria - 2012
Media revenues are an important determinant of media behavior. It is generally accepted that news coverage depends not only on the preferences of media consumers but also on the preferences of advertisers or subsidizing groups. However, existing models reach the opposite conclusions about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216834
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Media Markets, Special Interests, and Voters
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2017
This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy special interests’ capture US Senate candidates from 1980 to 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167896
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Endogenous institutions : the case of U.S. Congressional redistricting
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay - 2017
We measure where and to what end parties take control of Congressional redistricting, which lets them redraw districts to favor their own candidates. We exploit the discontinuous change in a party's control of redistricting triggered when its share of seats in the state legislature exceeds 50...
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Media versus special interests
Dyck, Alexander; Moss, David A.; Zingales, Luigi - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759403
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Media versus special interests
Dyck, Alexander; Moss, David; Zingales, Luigi - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773962