This note is an empirical investigation of the benefits that accrue to local building departments for a regulatory policy that conforms to the relative strength of local interest groups. The study uses an interest group model and applies it to data for building departments in 1100...

This paper develops a method to derive measures of the demand for public goods. It takes the results of referenda and incorporates variation in non-voting into a model, which is used to calculate both the demand elasticities of the preference intensities with respect to a variety of demographic...

This paper has established a framework for the analysis of program diversity and audience shares under different regimes of ownership, regulation, and channel quality. The model is one of comparative statics, and lends itself to analytical solutions. It can serve as a tool to clarify programming...