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Limited capacity in project selection : competition through evidence production

Boleslavsky, Raphael; Cotton, Christopher - 2015 - Current version: June 2015

An organization must decide which proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the organization may rely on those applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits of their own proposals. We consider the role of a capacity constraint preventing the organization from funding all...

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Investing in influence : how minority interests can prevail in a democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

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 …

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Lobbying in a multidimensional policy space with salient issues

Roberti, Paolo - 2014

We present a citizen-candidate model on a multidimensional policy space with lobbying, where citizens regard some … offset the effect of lobbying on the implemented policy. This result is in sharp contrast with previous work on … unidimensional citizen-candidate models that predict the irrelevance of lobbying on the implemented policy. In an extension of the …

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Lobbying in Europe : new firm-level evidence

Dellis, Konstantinos; Sondermann, David - 2017

Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …

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Merchants of Doubt : Corporate Political Influence When Expert Credibility is Uncertain

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2016

create doubt about scientific information, we use a signaling model of interest-group lobbying in which the policymaker has … persuasion to imply that the NGO may be a radical extremist whose lobbying is not credible. The second involves the creation of a …

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Are Biased Media Bad for Democracy?

Wolton, Stephane - 2019

This paper assesses the normative and positive claims regarding the consequences of biased media using a political agency framework that includes a strategic voter, polarized politicians, and news providers. My model predicts that voters are always better informed with unbiased than biased...

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Chapter 15. Empirical Studies of Media Bias

Puglisi, Riccardo; Snyder, James M. - 2015

In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories, explicit and implicit bias. We group existing measures of...

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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …

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Can lower tax rates be bought? : business rent-seeking and tax competition among US States

Chirinko, Robert S.; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2010

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

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Political activism and firm innovation

Ovtchinnikov, Alexei V.; Reza, Syed Walid; Wu, Yanhui - 2014

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on Congressional committees with jurisdictional authority over the firms' industries and politicians who join those committees innovate more. We employ instrumental variables estimation and a...

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