Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions

Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions

Campaign finance contributions may influence policy by affecting elections or by influencing the choices of politicians once in office. We study the trade-offs between these two paths to influence using a game in which contributions may affect electoral outcomes and signal policy-relevant information to politicians. In the model, an interest group and two politicians each possess private inform...

Electoral Pressures and the Legal System: Friends or Foes?

Transition policy and innovation policy: friends or foes?

Innovations have an important role in sustainability transitions and although transition policy is broader than just the stimulation of innovations for sustainability innovation policy can be an important part of transition policy. However, in this paper we argue that there is too little attention for the alignment of transition policy and innovation policy and that this misalignment might hamp...

Phytoestrogens. Friends or foes?

BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services (BIPASS) offer support to scientists interested in gathering information related to alternative splicing (AS) events. The service BIPAS–SpliceDB provides access to AS information that has been extracted a priori from various public databases and stored in a data warehouse. In contrast, the BIPAS– Align&Splice service allows scientists to sub...

Beta-agonists--friends or foes?