Lobbying and Legislative Organization: The Effect of the Vote of Confidence Procedure

Bennedsen Morten and Sven Feldmann
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Bennedsen Morten: Copenhagen Business School & University of Chicago

Business and Politics, 2002, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: This paper analyzes how the structure of the legislature affects interest groups' incentives to lobby. Lobbying is modelled as the strategic provision of information by an interest group to a multi-member legislature, and the effectiveness of lobbying lies in the ability of information to change the winning policy coalitions. We show that with a long enough time horizon for policymakers, the distinguishing feature between the U.S. Congress and European parliamentary systems--the vote of confidence procedure--reduces an agenda setter's willingness to change policy coalitions, and thus significantly lowers the incentives for interest group lobbying.

Date: 2002
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