Information Policy Advocacy and Lobbying

Advocacy and Competition Policy

Lobbying and Information in Politics

Homelessness: Advocacy and Social Policy

Science, scientists, and policy advocacy.

I am concerned that we scientists in conservation biology, ecology, natural resources, environmental science, and similar disciplines are collectively slipping into a morass that risks marginalizing the contribution of science to public policy. Advocating personal positions on ecological policy issues has become widely tolerated as acceptable professional behavior and is even encouraged by a su...

Lobbying contests with endogenous policy proposals

Lobbyists choose what to lobby for. If they can precommit to certain policy proposals, their choice will have an in‡uence on the behavior of opposing lobbyists. Hence lobbyists have an incentive to moderate their policy proposals in order to reduce the intensity of the lobbying contest. This logic has been explored in a number of recent papers. I reconsider the topic with a perfectly discrimina...