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Do Interest Groups Compete? [PDF]
This paper conducts a test of the hypothesis that interest groups compete strategically for influence with a policy-making agency. It adapts econometric methodology from the empirical industrial organization literature that was designed to work with ...
Ando, Amy
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Interest Groups: An Introduction [PDF]
This paper reviews public choice theories of interest groups.Interest groups; rent ...
Filip Palda
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Lobbying and Information in Politics [PDF]
, 2002 The vast majority of papers written about interest groups ’ political in uence focuses on the role of money in politics. Business and interest groups ’ partici-pation in campaign nance, in the form of hard and soft money, has been the subject of ...
de Figueiredo, John M.
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Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites in Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014)
Indonesia Law Review, 2016 This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take ...
Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati +1 more
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Interest Groups and Trade Reform in Mexico [PDF]
Mexico experienced widespread economic reform in the last two decades. From being a protectionist economy with a policy of import substitution, it has turned into an export-oriented open economy.
Luis Sanchez-Mier
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Do Interest Groups affect US Immigration Policy? [PDF]
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue.
Anna Maria Mayda +2 more
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Special-Interest Groups and Volatility [PDF]
This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility ...
Bonnie Wilson +2 more
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Russia on the Path Towards a New Technology-Industrial Policy: Exciting Prospects and Fatal Traps
Foresight and STI Governance, 2014 The article aims to discuss the practical problems and inconsistencies of industrial policy in Russia since 2000, to analyze positive and negative experiences, and to draw up some lessons which are essential for a new technology-industrial policy ...
Yuri Simachev +3 more
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Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme [PDF]
This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups ...
Anger, Niels +2 more
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The Conditionality of Political Short‐Termism: A Review of Empirical and Experimental Studies
Politics and GovernancePolitical short-termism prioritizes short-term net policy benefits over long-term benefits and thus can hinder policy investments that impose short-term costs to society to address long-term policy challenges.
Masakazu Ogami
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