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Legislative Bargaining and Incremental Budgeting
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2001
The notion of 'incrementalism', formulated by Aaron Wildavsky in the 1960's, has been extremely influential in the public budgeting literature. In essence, it entails the claim that legislators engaged in budgetary policymaking accept past allocations, and decide only on the allocation 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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Thelarger the better? : the role of interest-group size in legislative lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with … Groseclose and Snyder (1996)-type lobbying models with exogenous policy proposals can turn into a second-mover disadvantage when …
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Legislative Informational Lobbying
Dellis, Arnaud - 2020
Whom should an interest group lobby in a legislature? I develop a model of informational lobbying in which a … the analysis. First, the model rationalizes both friendly and confrontational lobbying, predicting circumstances in which … friendly lobbying prevails over confrontational lobbying. Second, the model establishes a relationship between information …
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Interest-Group Size and Legislative Lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2012
We develop a model of legislative decision making in which lobbying and public policy are jointly determined. We … endogenous proposal making may turn a second-mover advantage in standard legislative lobbying models into a second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197846
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The EMU consolidation game - or: Does 3.0 really mean 3.0?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428121
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The EMU consolidation game - or: does 3.0 really mean 3.0?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441024
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Budgetary policy with unified and decentralized appropriations authority
Dharmapala, Dhammika - In: Public choice 115 (2003) 3/4, pp. 347-367
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The effect of fiscal rules on public investment if budget deficits are politically motivated
Dur, Robert A. J.; Peletier, Ben D.; Swank, Otto H. - 1997
Uncertainty about the future preferences of the government may induce policy makers to run excessive budget deficits. As a solution to this problem, economists have proposed to impose a binding debt rule. In this paper we argue that a binding debt rule does not eliminate the distortions due to...
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Lobbying on Effective Legislation : Revolving Door Lobbyists’ Targeted Legislative Influence
LaPira, Tim - 2015
greater access to higher priority legislation explains why revolving door lobbyists are associated with rare changes to the … lobbying influence …
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