The theoretical advantage of single-issue pressure groups is that they can form broad coalitions, gathering people from across the political spectrum who need not agree on anything other than the group's single issue. For example, Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a group that...

This paper examines the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which lifted bans on independent expenditures by corporations and unions. Using a difference-in-differences design, the study compares states with and without pre-existing bans, focusing on gubernatorial elections. The...

We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...

Pressure groups may use bribes, violence, or a combination of both to bend politics to their will, and the choice between these methods of influence can vary depending on the type of institutional regime. We empirically investigate the dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in...

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting outcomes. We model a referendum in which a voter chooses between two policies. The voter relies on a forecaster to learn about the macroeconomic consequences of the policies. The...

Konsequent aus einer Geschlechterperspektive heraus geht die Studie der Frage nach, wie sich die Digitalisierung auf die Arbeit von Frauen und Männern auswirkt, welche Faktoren relevant sind und wie dieser Prozess im Sinne guter, geschlechtergerechter Arbeit gestaltet werden kann. Am Beispiel...

Damit Transformationsprozesse nachhaltig, sozial gerecht und im Sinne demokratischer Entwicklung gestaltet werden können, sind Interessenvertretungen als Mitbestimmungsakteure gefordert. Die komplexen Gestaltungsaufgaben erhöhen die Kompetenzanforderungen an Betriebs- und Personalräte....

Konsequent aus einer Geschlechterperspektive heraus geht die Studie der Frage nach, wie sich die Digitalisierung auf die Arbeit von Frauen und Männern auswirkt, welche Faktoren relevant sind und wie dieser Prozess im Sinne guter, geschlechtergerechter Arbeit gestaltet werden kann. Am Beispiel...

Damit Transformationsprozesse nachhaltig, sozial gerecht und im Sinne demokratischer Entwicklung gestaltet werden können, sind Interessenvertretungen als Mitbestimmungsakteure gefordert. Die komplexen Gestaltungsaufgaben erhöhen die Kompetenzanforderungen an Betriebs- und Personalräte....

Foreign aid is often granted to encourage market-oriented reform. It is not clear that this approach to reform has been effective. We seek to understand this seeming failure of aid. We ask whether and how political markets for institutions have influenced the impact of aid allocations on reform,...

We examine whether sectional interest groups influence monetary policy goals in a manner consistent with their interests as distributive coalitions. In particular, we explore whether bank groups and labor groups are associated with the incidence of inflation targeting by the central bank....

Introduction Empirical Applications of the Median Voter Model -- Do Voter Initiatives Affect the Interest Group Orientation of Government Spending -- The Political Economy of Automobile Insurance Elected vs Appointed Regulators -- Conflicting Objectives of Cartel Members Analysis of Voting...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Liberalism: The Ideological Dimension of political correctness -- Chapter 3: Public Choice Theory as an explanatory framework for pc -- Chapter 4: Pc In Academia: The role of academics and University Administrators -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

This working paper brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the historiography of capitalism, business history and global governance and lay the foundations for further research in this area. Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud open the discussion with a historiographical survey of...

This paper studies the mechanisms behind party polarization in the US Congress. The model generates a link between the initial composition of the parties, the behavior of new interest groups and the pattern and level of polarization along the new policy dimension (e.g., environment). Our...

What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by German-American groups and associations in the early twentieth century, before and after state-sponsored suppression of them that coincided with U.S. entry to...

This paper is the first attempt to explore the impact of interest groups and transboundary pollution on the welfare effects of pollution taxes and pollution standards in the framework of strategic environmental policies. The main findings of this paper are as follows. First, without interest...

We study the influence of trade exposed producer lobby groups on national climate policies and the formation of a climate coalition if the coalition uses border carbon adjustment (BCA), protecting domestic industries. The countries regulate emissions from commodity production with carbon taxes....

Negative ESG incidents and practices have gained traction in the recent past, severely damaging the firm's reputation and survival. Firms may adopt political investment strategies to mitigate the risks associated with these negative ESG incidents. Using corporate political contributions in the...