The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

Although the liability of foreignness has been shown to present real economic barriers for
foreign firms in various contexts around the globe, scholars continue to debate what drives …

Do US lobbying patterns extend to other countries? To date no study has systematically
compared US lobbying patterns with those of other countries using observational data …

Corporate lobbying positively influences firm innovation outcomes. Firms that engage more
in lobbying have more patents, more patent citations, and greater patent value. We establish …

Lobbying is a potential source of corruption but is also a valuable source of information for
policy-makers. We analyze a game-theoretic model that shows how the threat of corruption …

Lobbyists are omnipresent in the policy-making process, but the value that they bring to both
clients and politicians remains poorly understood. We develop a model in which a lobbyist's …

Developing a lobbying model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained
features of the real‐world lobbying industry. Lobbying is divided between direct …

Voters are frequently ill-equipped to monitor politicians' actions. Politicians are expected to
implement projects, whose benefits sometimes partially accrue to interest groups (IGs) and …

Special interest groups (SIGs) have multiple channels of influence: contributing to decision-
makers or providing them with information (henceforth, inside lobbying) and grassroots …

What can interest group scholars, practitioners, and policymakers learn about the concept of
influence from formal theories of informational lobbying? This article has two objectives. The …