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Group Mobilization and Rent-Seeking

In: Green Taxation in Question

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  • Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

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We start by establishing the first political constraint which determines the actual design of green taxation, namely that of ‘rentseeking’. Rent-seeking is defined as ‘the use of resources in lobbying and other activities directed at securing protective legislation’ (McKenzie and Tullock 1981). A concept originally introduced by Tullock (1967), it has had a wide-ranging impact on social sciences in general (Fishback, Libecap and Zajac 2000). The general idea is that rent-seeking affects the level of green taxation in favour of well organized interest groups. As such, rent-seeking may explain why the economists’ long recommended uniform taxation of pollution has not been applied.

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  • Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, 2001. "Group Mobilization and Rent-Seeking," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Green Taxation in Question, chapter 2, pages 17-43, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59553-8_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230595538_2
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