Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society

Roger Congleton

A chapter in 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2, 1991, pp 769-790 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The paper develops a model of rent-seeking in a democratic political context where voting, as well as rent-seeking, matters. In this context, the paper demonstrates that voter ideology is a constraint on the rent-seeking game as well as a possible avenue of rent-seeking. In a setting where there are both rent-seeking and ideological interest groups, rent-seekers can free ride on the efforts of ideologues, which tends to reduce rent-seeking effort. In a setting where complementary economic and ideological interest groups coordinate their efforts, both rent- seeking and ideological conflict tend to increase.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79247-5_46

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