The pluralistic view of politics: asymmetric lobbyists, ideological uncertainty and political entry

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2007.02.036MaRDI QIDQ1934166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Martimort, Aggey Semenov

Publication date 28 January 2013

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://publications.ut-capitole.fr/16187/1/martimort_semenov2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

common agencylobbypluralistic politics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) History, political science (91F10)

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