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Special interest groups and 4th best transport pricing [PDF]
This paper is organized as follows. In order to explain the basic idea of 4th best pricing more fully the following Section 2 will sketch and discuss the above mentioned Laffont model, where it is shown that under certain conditions a uniform tariff may ...
Wieland, Bernhard
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The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation and Administrative Regulation [PDF]
One of the central concerns about American policy-making institutions is the degree to which political outcomes can be influenced by interested parties.
John M. de Figueiredo +1 more
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Interest group influence on EU policy-making: A quantitative analysis across issues [PDF]
, 2009 This paper presents a large-scale empirical analysis of interest group influence on EU policy-making across a wide range of issues. The explanation of policy outcomes as well as the democratic legitimacy of the EU crucially depends on how much influence ...
Kluever, Heike
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Enfances, Familles, Générations, 2012 A Quebec movement advocating family policies was created in the Sixties by family groups and social workers in private agencies whose activities were undermined by the creation of public welfare and educational systems.
Denise Lemieux
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The Informational Effects of Competition and Collusion in Legislative Politics [PDF]
We use a mechanism design approach to study the organization of interest groups in an informational model of lobbying. Interest groups influence the legislature only by communicating private information on their preferences and not by means of monetary ...
Martimort, David, Semenov, Aggey
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Exchange Rates and Interest Groups in Peru, 1950-1996 [PDF]
The review of Peruvian exchange rate policies during the last fifty years prompts several questions. First, why did the government choose some exchange rate regimes over others? Second, why did governments target certain exchange rate levels? Third, why,
Alberto Pascó-Font, Piero Ghezzi
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Interest Groups and Government Spending in Italy, 1876-1913 [PDF]
In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure ...
Nadia Fiorino, Roberto Ricciuti
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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups [PDF]
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will ...
Sadiraj, V. +2 more
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Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Health Care Policy (1960s-Present) [PDF]
, 2014 Giaimo, Susan
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