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Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - 2006

Trade opportunities are generally seen as valuable instruments to improve the allocation of resources in society. However, when the traded rights are secured through unproductive rent-seeking contests, the tradeability of the rents may provide stronger incentives to invest in rent-seeking...

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What to put on and that to keep off the table? A politician's choice of which issues to address

Sayag, Rei S.; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

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The impact of lobbying on the allocation of political authority

Falconieri, Sonia - 2001

This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …

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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest...

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On the dynamics of interest group formation and endogenous policymaking

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

We present a dynamic model of the interaction between interest groupsand policymakers, featuringendogenous interest group formation. We show that complicated dynamicpatterns in economicpolicies may arise once interest group formation is taken intoaccount.

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Information and strategic voting

Tyszler, Marcelo; Schram, Arthur - 2011

We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...

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Delegation or voting

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2001

Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the...

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Vanity in politics : a problem?

Suurmond, Guido; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002

Can vanity do any good? It may seem obvious to answer this question in the negative, as economists have shown how reputational concerns lead agents e.g. to ignore valuable information, to herd, and to become overly risk averse. We explore how proud agents may be a social blessing. An agent may...

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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition

Beniers, Klaas Jan; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2005

We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians may have stronger incentives to behave...

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A theory on media bias and elections

Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur; Sloof, Randolph - 2019

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News released by media allows voters to infer the relative appeal of the two candidates, and the closeness of elections. In large elections, the former determines the election...

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