between either bribing only the majority and accepting the monitoring of the minority, or alternatively, bribing also the … minority, which gives up to its control role and increases the probability of success of the illicit action. Minorities can …

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …

How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …

size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … different institutional arrangements as to judicial independence. -- Illegal lobbying ; Endogenous policy making ; Judicial …

How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms … persistence in lobbying. The existence of these costs is further confirmed in studying how firms responded to a particular policy …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying …