Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process [PDF]
This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of
Bischoff, Ivo
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Hydraulic Bureaucracies and the Hydraulic Mission: Flows of Water, Flows of Power
Water Alternatives, 2009 Anchored in 19th century scientism and an ideology of the domination of nature, inspired by colonial hydraulic feats, and fuelled by technological improvements in high dam constructions and power generation and transmission, large-scale water resources ...
François Molle +2 more
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Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey [PDF]
The participation of interest groups in public policy making is unavoidable. Its unavoidable nature is only matched by the universal suspicion with which it has been seen by both policy makers and the public.
Pablo T. Spiller, Sanny Liao
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2012 Sustainable buildings have often been niche products, but in recent years a new approach has emerged in Denmark aimed at mainstreaming and normalizing this mode of construction and seeking to attract ordinary Danes through market conditions.
Jesper Ole Jensen +3 more
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Communication by Interest Groups and the Organization of Lobbying [PDF]
This paper uses a mechanism design approach to characterize the optimal organization of lobbying groups in a political context where those groups have private information on their ideal points in a one-dimensional policy space.
Martimort, David, Semenov, Aggey
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Interest Groups, Government Spending and Italian Industrial Growth (1876-1913) [PDF]
In the last two decades of the XIX century the Italian model of economic growth shifted from agricultural to industrial. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from ...
Nadia Fiorino, Roberto Ricciuti
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Transition to Market Economy in Eastern Europe: Interest Groups and Political Institutions in Russia [PDF]
The article analyzes the causes of the incoherent reformprogram in Russia in the last decade. It argues that the slow and partial policies can be attributed to a viscous combination of lobbyism and constitutional design.
Esben Bergmann Schjødt +1 more
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Rent seeking, interest groups and environmental lobbying: Cane Farmers versus Great Barrier Reef Protectionists [PDF]
In this paper an interest group model of rent seeking behaviour between sugarcane farmers and environmental protectionists is developed. The motivation for this scenario comes from the debate over fertilizer run-off and its possible impact on Queensland ...
Beard, Rodney
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A Computational Electoral Competition Model with Social Clustering and Endogenous Interest Groups as Information Brokers [PDF]
We extend the basic model of spatial competition in two directions. First, political parties and voters do not have complete information but behave adaptively.
Sadiraj, V. +2 more
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