Do More Powerful Interest Groups Have a Disproportionate Influence on Policy?
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Keywords
Information collection; Communcation; Interest groups; Decision-making;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H39 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Other
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