This title is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups affect policy in modern democracies. Defining a special interest group as any organization that takes action on behalf of an identifiable group of voters, it asks: How do special interest groups derive their power and influence?[...]
Designed for use by professional researchers and advanced graduate students, this text forms part of a series of handbooks for various branches of economics, each of which is a source, reference and teaching supplement. Each handbook provides self-contained surveys of the current state of a branch o[...]
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 that takes action on behalf of an identifiable group of voters, Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman ask: How do special int[...]
Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman are widely acclaimed for their pioneering theoretical studies of how special interest groups seek to influence the policymaking process in democratic societies. This collection of eight of their previously published articles is a companion to their recent monograph,[...]