Search Results - subject:"INTEREST GROUPS"

Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, … - 2021

We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries. Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available to the public. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic...

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With a Little Help from My Friends. Political Competition with Interest Groups

Accardo, Pasquale; De Feo, Giuseppe; De Luca, Giacomo - 2021

Higher electoral competition reinforces the position of special interest groups, which can endorse politicians in …

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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore; Krishna, Pravin; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2021

Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The theoretical structure underlying the empirical...

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Protection for Sale : An Empirical Investigation

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Maggi, Giovanni - 2021

A prominent model in the recent political-economy literature on trade policy is Grossman and Helpman's (1994) Protection for Sale' model. This model yields clear predictions for the cross-sectional structure of trade protection. The objective of our" paper is to check whether the predictions of...

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Organized Interests and the Mechanisms Behind Unequal Representation in Legislatures

Becher, Michael; Stegmueller, Daniel - 2021

of elected representatives, it pays relatively little attention to the role of interest groups. We discuss two central … channels through which interest groups shape unequal representation: the selection of partisan legislators through elections … responsiveness and understate the role interest groups’ post-electoral influence. Our results stress the importance of theoretical …

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Analysis of selected aspects of an organisation : the organisation as an instrument, an interest group and as a process

Gošnik, Dušan; Kavčič, Klemen - In: Managing global transitions : international research journal 19 (2021) 2, pp. 167-181

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A commitment theory of populism

Morelli, Massimo; Nicolò, Antonio; Roberti, Paolo - 2021

When voters' trust in politicians collapses, they demand simple policies that they can easily monitor. Disenchanted citizens therefore prefer committed delegates to politicians who propose themselves as competent policy makers but without a specific policy commitment (trustees). In a two-party...

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Democracy, interest groups and compliance with the Kyoto Protocol

Al Doyaili-Wangler, Sarah - 2021

This paper seeks to give insights into how domestic voters form their preferences pro or contra compliance with IEAs and therefore how public concern for the environment and interest group activity influence national compliance behaviour. Three hypotheses are developed. First, compliance...

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Financiamento de campanha e lobbying empresarial nas Comissões Permanentes da Câmara dos Deputados

Santos, Manoel Leonardo; Mancuso, Wagner Pralon; … - 2021

This study investigates the performance of interest groups in standing committees from the Brazilian Chamber of … funding is high, but the bias cannot be generalized. As for lobbying, we noticed the centrality of business interest groups in …

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Defining and measuring the relevance of criteria for the evaluation of the inflow of goods in city centers

Jardas, Mladen; Hadžić, Ana Perić; Tijan, Edvard - In: Logistics 5 (2021) 3, pp. 1-15

The aim of this paper is to define and measure the relevance of the criteria for the evaluation of the inflow of goods in city centers, in order to improve delivery activities within city centers. The development of the city center leads to the grouping of numerous business operators, which...

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