Battaglini, Marco; Bénabou, Roland - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (2003) 4, pp. 851-889
We study political activism by several interest groups with private signals. When their ideological distance to the policymaker is small, a "low-trust" regime prevails: agents frequently lobby even when it is unwarranted, taking advantage of the confirmation provided by others' activism;...