How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy

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How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district where voters or their representative support the policy. In equilibr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Dahm, Matthias, Dur, Robert, Glazer, Amihai
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2014
Subjects:	Lobbying Voting Special interests Credibility
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47271/

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