Search Results - subject:"INTEREST GROUPS"

Silent promotion of agendas : campaign contributions and ideological polarization

Konishi, Hideo; Pan, Chen-Yu - In: Public choice 182 (2020) 1/2, pp. 93-117

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The public debate on biofuels in Germany : who drives the discourse?

Puttkammmer, Judith; Grethe, Harald - In: German journal of agricultural economics : GJAE 64 (2015) 4, pp. 263-273

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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? The Brexit case

Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019

This paper introduces macroeconomic forecasters as political agents and suggests that they use their forecasts to in uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the future states of the economy and have to rely on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013528

Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? Policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout

Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2019

We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups …

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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest … groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …

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Vote Buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

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Agrotóxicos no Brasil: Padrões de uso, política da regulação e prevenção da captura regulatória

de Moraes, Rodrigo Fracalossi - 2019

Pesticides are not only agricultural inputs but also dangerous products, reason why the state must regulate them. However, if scientific evidence about the effects of pesticides is universal, why do regulations vary across countries? This article argues that pesticide regulation depends in part...

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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? The Brexit case

Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019

This paper introduces macroeconomic forecasters as political agents and suggests that they use their forecasts to influence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the future states of the economy and have to rely on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182826

The Role of Pressure Groups and Problem Definition in Crafting Legislative Solutions to the Opioid Crisis

El-Sabawi, Taleed - 2019

Organized interest groups and federal administrative agencies have historically been influential in defining problem …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103951

Public Interventions in Platform Industries : The Role of Interest Groups and Potential Welfare Effects

Köksal, Emin; Uçar, Belkıs Gökçe - 2019

intervention, we emphasise the influence of interest groups and potential welfare effects and conclude that the public … interventions benefit the relevant interest groups at the expense of other parties. Moreover, each of these interventions has …

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