This paper deals with the relationship between regulatory compliance, bureaucratic corruption, lobbying and industrial structure of a country. We show that corruption can coexist at macro level when we allow for heterogeneity in firm size. Countries similar development are often characterized by very different structures: implications this has Welfare our model point toward encouraging policies...

Based on a large-scale interview-based study of 98 randomly selected cases of lobbying in Washington from 1999 to 2003 (reported in Baumgartner et al. 2009), we found virtually no impact of money on outcomes. We believe that this counterintuitive finding derives from the huge business and corporate bias that permeates Washington and is already built into the policies of the status quo. Lobbying...

To build a legal and democratic state, one cannot do without such phenomenon as lobbying. This institution exists in many developed civilized countries, but it is ambiguous insufficiently studied. opinion arises after analyzing the works of scientists whose subject study was The main purpose this article to reveal essence lobbying politics terms foreign experience compare with Ukrainian realiti...

This paper develops a signaling model of corporate lobbying in democratic capitalist societies to analyze the conditions that lead to a powerful political position of business. Proceeding from the traditional dichotomy of structural economic determinants versus business’ political action, our model predicts the conditions under which elected political decisionmakers modify their policy pledges ...