become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

campaign contributions to ideologically neutral politicians who are often pivotal voters in the legislature. However, if … politicians who share similar policy preferences to win the election. Thus, liberal (conservative) interest groups will make … campaign contributions to liberal (conservative, respectively) politicians. In this paper, I first develop a model …