Heterogeneous groups and rent-seeking for public goods

Guillaume Cheikbossian

European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, vol. 24, issue 1, 133-150

Abstract: We present a model of endogenous public good provision and group rent-seeking influence. Specifically, two groups with different preferences over public policy and different sizes engage in rent-seeking or lobbying activities to influence policymaking in their preferred direction. When there is within-group cooperation in lobbying, both groups neutralize each other in the political process. Without within-group cooperation, the free-rider problem in lobbying makes the smaller group politically influent. In both cases, the total level of rent-seeking activities is shown to be increasing in taste heterogeneity but decreasing in group size asymmetry.

Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (29)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176-2680(07)00036-5
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Heterogenous Groups and Rent-Seeking for Public Goods (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:poleco:v:24:y:2008:i:1:p:133-150

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Political Economy is currently edited by J. De Haan, A. L. Hillman and H. W. Ursprung

More articles in European Journal of Political Economy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().