Sustainability and Interest Group Participation in City Politics

Power and Interest Groups in City Politics

A Network Approach to Interest Group Politics

A Model of Inequality and Interest Group Politics*

In this paper we build a model to examine inequality of process and inequality of outcomes in interest group politics. The model has the following features: (i) interest groups which compete for rents in a noncooperative game, (ii) a self-interested rent-setting political decision maker (iii) democratic or popular pressure as a check on the self-interest of the political decision maker. We allo...

Asymmetric Interest Group Mobilization and Party Coalitions in U.S. Tax Politics

Arguments about national tax policy have taken center stage in U.S. politics in recent times, creating acute dilemmas for Democrats. With Republicans locked into antitax agendas for some time, Democrats have recently begun to push back, arguing for maintaining or even increasing taxes on the very wealthy in the name of deficit reduction and the need to sustain funding for public programs. But t...

When Computers Became of Interest in Politics

Technical progress was for a long time uncontroversial in the Scan movements. World events like the American war in Vietnam and a new zeitgeist of the sixties and politically aware computer enthusiasts started seeing com themes were central in the Swedish discussion: the IBM hegemony, computers a the threat to democratic development by a changed balance of power. Swedish recollected from a pers...