Lobbying and Legislative Organization The Effect of the Vote of Confidence Procedure

We analyze how the structure of organizational form of legislative institutions affects <p> interest groups ’incentives to lobby.Lobbying is modelled the strategic provision <p> of information by an interest group to a multi-person legislature.We show that <p> the effectiveness of lobbying lies in changing the viable policy coalitions.We show <p> in a multi-period policy framework that a distinguishing feature between the US <p> Congress and European parliamentary systems —the vote of confidence procedure — <p> can significantly change the incentives for interest group lobbying.