This chapter reviews the relevant intellectual traditions in economics, political science, and
law. It considers the demand for environmental policy instruments and examines the supply …

This essay critically reviews research published in the last decade that explores how
lobbyists and interest groups influence the actions of the US Congress. The research is …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Using novel indicators of political connections constructed from campaign contribution data,
we show that Brazilian firms that provided contributions to (elected) federal deputies …

Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes
spanning the two centuries since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in …

* This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant SES 79-12965 at the
Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University. A. Colin …

abstract The authors begin by offering an overview of the sources and amounts of campaign
contributions in the US In the light of these facts, they explore the assumption that the …

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political
decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political …

Over the last two decades institutional critics have increasingly charged that moneyed
interests dominate the legislative process in Congress. Systematic research on campaign …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …