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Pollution Abatement Investment When Firms Lobby Against Environmental Regulation [PDF]

In this paper, we study a firm’s optimal lobby behavior and its effect on investment in pollution abatement capital. We develop a dynamic framework where a representative firm can invest in both abatement and lobby capital in response to a possible ...
Jinhua Zhao, Y. Hossein Farzin
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Inventing a Testimony (Chapter 18 of Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical)

, 2009
Excerpt: Several months into my first year of college, I realized there was an optional worship service for students every Sunday evening and that anyone who wanted to be considered a Christian by her peers had better show up.
Mock, Melanie Springer
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Las organizaciones no gubernamentales y sus influencias lobbying: clima e inmigración

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Objetivo: estudiar cómo actúan las ONG y demostrar las influencias lobbying que ejercen estos grupos de presión sobre el medioambiente y a favor de la inmigración producida por el cambio climático.
Ana Belén Oliver-González
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The Larger the Better? The Role of Interest-Group Size in Legislative Lobbying [PDF]

We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the ...
Maik T. Schneider
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La regulació del Registre de grups d’interès a la Llei 19/2014, de 29 de desembre, de transparència, accés a la informació pública i bon govern

Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2015
L’activitat dels lobbys i la seva compatibilitat amb el sistema democràtic ha estat objecte de consideració des de fa dècades, particularment als països de common law que han estat els primers a regular-la. Tot i haver-se proposat diverses vegades, no ha
Enric R. Bartlett Castellà, Sílvia Vèrnia Trillo   +1 more
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Uncovered Power: External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying [PDF]

Where does the balance of power lie in a policy-making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred ...
Silvia Console Battilana
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P. L. Petrillo, 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜, Giuffré, Milano, 2011 [PDF]

IANUS Diritto e Finanza, 2013
Novità bibliografiche / 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 ...
Emanuele Rossi
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Does Centralization Affect the Number and Size of Lobbies? [PDF]

Previous research has shown that if countries “merge”, (i.e. move to centralized policy choices) the effect is to reduce lobbying. However empirical evidence suggests that this is not always the case. This paper attempts to explain the empirical evidence
Michela Redoano
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Premises - Branches - Head Office 65 Martin Place - Interior - Ground floor foyer - Lift lobby - c. 1964

, 2022

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When Do Firms Hire Lobbyists? The Organization of Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission [PDF]

This paper examines the explanatory power of transaction cost economics to explain vertical integration decisions for lobbying by firms. We examine 150 lobbying contacts at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the issue of payphone compensation
James J. Kim, John M. de Figueiredo
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