This article investigates the effect of lobbying on government contract allocation. I consider how affects both total spending and distribution contracts between firms. solve a novel contest model which incorporates these two effects, then structurally estimate it using panel federal contractors. The results suggest that increases by $8.837 billion (3.22%) per year. However, its effects observe...

BACKGROUND Although public and media attention has focused on the federal role in the regulation of tobacco products, state government remains an important arena for changing tobacco control policies. Lobbying state officials by public health and the tobacco industry is a commonly used mechanism to influence public policy. METHODS Major bills of the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 Wisconsin legislati...

Grammatical Role Parallelism (Kamayama, 1986; Smyth, 1994) Reasoning/World Knowledge (Hobbs, 1979) a. George narrowly defeated John, and special interests promptly began lobbying him. [ him = George ] b. John was narrowly defeated by George, and special interests promptly began lobbying him. [ him = John ] c. George narrowly defeated John, and Mitt absolutely trounced him. [ him = John ] d. Geo...

Abstract There is an increasing involvement of lawyers and law firms in public affairs through activities that are aimed at influencing legislative regulatory developments. Law offer services which can be regarded as lobbying, yet, to the detriment transparent policy-making, they reluctant register European Union Transparency Register (EUTR) provide information about their activities. As growin...

The lobbying process is modelled as an auction with externalities in which lobbies bid to get implemented their most-preferred policy. Furthermore, the government may influence the lobbying process itself by biasing the auction among organized interests. We identify the following trade-off: competition yields a higher transfer to the government, but the outcome of the game tends to be less effi...

We propose various models for lobbying in a probabilistic environment, in which an actor (called “The Lobby”) seeks to influence the voters’ preferences of voting for or against multiple issues when the voters’ preferences are represented in terms of probabilities. In particular, we provide two evaluation criteria and three bribery methods to formally describe these models, and we consider the ...