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It Takes Two to Tango: Lobbies and the Political Business Cycle.
- Source :
- Kyklos; Aug2010, Vol. 63 Issue 3, p383-399, 17p, 1 Diagram, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Merging the impacts of interest groups on economic growth with governments' interest in unemployment and inflation, there should be a link between political business cycles and interest group formation. Interpreting Olson's Law in a short-run perspective and integrating it with political business cycles, this contribution examines the link. We illustrate how such a model could look like, before investigating the relationship of lobbies, governments and voters empirically. As the time-series-analysis based on the German lobby-list shows, lobbies strategically organize their activity to foster reelection of the governments: It takes two to tango. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00235962
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Kyklos
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 52214382
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2010.00479.x