Sökning: "Campaign Contributions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Campaign Contributions.
1. Political Corruption and Campaign Financing
Sammanfattning : Although political leaders, donors and some scholars would argue that there is nothing illegal behind the idea of giving and receiving campaign contributions, this research attempts to demonstrate the contrary. Here, I claim that small and large contributions constitute representations of political corruption because they are given for specific purposes either ideological or personal. LÄS MER
2. Interest Groups and Government Policy. A Political Economy Analysis
Sammanfattning : Politics induce economic agents to organise into special interest groups (SIGs) and act strategically to adjust their economic decisions and to conduct rent-seeking activities in order do improve the situation inflicted on them by policy. This thesis examines, in four essays, different forms of SIG influence on public policy in different institutional contexts. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Interest Groups and Trade Policy
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the relationship between domestic political processes and interindustry variations in unilateral and multilateral trade policies. The literature on endogenous protection is extended to account for the potential importance of information flows, to explore the consequences of adapting the analyses to political systems which differ from the American kind, and to build a framework suitable for empirical examination. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Voting and Government Inefficiency
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on political economics.The first essay, The Effects on Political Rent-seeking of Allowing Campaign Contributions in Politics, presents a theoretical analysis of the effects on political rent-seeking of allowing campaign contributions in politics. LÄS MER
5. Legal bribes? : An analysis of corporate donations to electoral campaigns
Sammanfattning : In this research I analyse how the existence of regulations that allow private funding of election campaigns have created opportunities for crime. Three specific questions are addressed here: 1. Do electoral donations increase political corruption? 2. Why do companies give electoral donations? 3. LÄS MER