This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...

This article examines the domestic politics of sovereign debt repudiation. I contend that countries that are governed by a coalition of parties are less likely to reschedule their debts than those under single-party governments. I test this argument using cross-national data from 1971 to 1997 in...