The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the
recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This landmark theoretical book is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups
affect policy in modern democracies. Defining a special interest group as any organization …

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 …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

An important and pervasive view of campaign contributions is that they are given to promote
access to successful candidates under circumstances when such access would not …

Small business has captured the imagination of both the popular press and politicians. The
tradition that has created sympathy for the small entrepreneur has been strengthened in …