political economy models, the district demand and the swing voter with lobbying, are tested, and a model that accounts for the …’s benefits and lobbying, especially by the municipalities concerned. …

In this paper, we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that … lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. In particular, even though the policy … preferences of lobbies are relatively extreme, lobbying biases the outcome of the political process toward the center of the …

Lobbying by pollution firms is commonly viewed as having a negative impact on the stringency of environmental policy …. We ask whether lobbying instead can bring about stricter environmental policy, and how imperfect property rights affect …

This paper investigates the effects of business tax lobbying in the presence of investments that are sunk or costly to … obtaining tax breaks through lobbying; this reverses the usual logic of the capital levy problem. Nevertheless, these industries … corporate lobbying. When politicians give more weight to lobbyists' preferences, taxes fall on average and investment rises. But …