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Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2007

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Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Nitsan, Shemuʾel (contributor) - 2007

This book focuses on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in public policy. It applies strategic … contest theory as the basic methodology and clarifies the fundamental parameters that determine the behavior of the government …This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in …

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Having everyone in the boat may sink it : interest group involvement and policy reforms

Boerner, Kira - 2005

In many countries, governments involve interest groups at early stages of political decisionmaking. The idea of this is to enhance the legitimacy of the policy decision and to curb later opposition to the implementation of the policy. We show that the way and timing of interest groups...

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Political economy reasons for government inertia : the role of interest groups in the case of access to medicines

Börner, Kira Astrid - 2004

The reluctant reaction of western governments to the AIDS crisis in developing countries is only one example for policy areas where we observe a lack of political action despite a public interest in policy change. The reasons for that lie in the two-stage structure of the political...

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Clueless politicians

Cotton, Christopher; Li, Cheng - 2015 - Current version: July 2015

become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

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Precise control over legislative vote outcomes : a forensic approach to political economics

Matter, Ulrich; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2016

We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise...

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