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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares

Sojourner, Aaron - 2012

outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on low …-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …% of societies with finitely-repeated encounters. However, lobbying investments are not always profitable, and profit …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Barnett, Andy - 2013

Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...

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Economic Science and Political Influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...

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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Domadenik, Polona - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...

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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...

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