Interest groups: A survey of empirical models that try to assess their influence

Potters, Jan; Sloof, Randolph

doi:10.1016/s0176-2680(96)00008-0

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“…(10) is estimated using a fixed effects specification (results from a random effects specification are available upon request). (see Potters and Sloof 1996). MANsh may alternatively capture the degree to which an economy consists of pollution intensive manufacturing.…”

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Institutionalized pollution havens

Cole¹,

Fredriksson²

2009

Ecological Economics

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This paper provides a lobby group theory based on Prat and Rustichini (Econometrica 2003) which suggests that the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policies is conditional on the structure of host countries' political institutions. In particular, FDI raises environmental policy stringency where the number of legislative units (such as the chambers of parliament or congress, government parties, the president, or the prime minister) are many, but reduces it where the legislative units are few. Our panel data evidence is fully consistent with this prediction. Pollution havens are thus more likely to occur in countries with institutional structures involving few legislative units. Finally, we show the empirical importance of endogenizing environmental policy in pollution haven hypothesis studies. Only when environmental policy is treated as endogenous does environmental policy stringency have a significant negative effect on FDI. This sheds new light on the existing literature on the pollution haven hypothesis.

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Institutionalized pollution havens

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Fredriksson²

2009

Ecological Economics

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“…Firstly, notwithstanding the huge number of empirical studies there are relatively few 'stylized facts', basically showing that contributions and lobbying, the size of organized membership, and an interest group's stake are positive determinants of influence, whereas the presence of an oppositional force in the political arena, electoral pressures, and the presence of a wellinformed electorate are negative determinants (Potters and Sloof 1996). The main problems are a serious lack of data and a shortage of hypotheses derived from theoretical models that provide structure and a base for embedding.…”

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“…1 Early modeling of interest groups, during the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, had difficulty in dealing simultaneously with the 1 The (field) empirical literature is surveyed in Potters and Sloof (1996). discusses the relatively small number of experimental studies.…”

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Interest Group Behavior and Influence

Winden¹

2008

Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy

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“…An example will be presented below, building on a simple influential function approach inspired by Becker (1983). 15 We assume that the decision about the level of environmental regulation in a country is determined by the lobbing activities of two pressure groups: An industrial group (IG) lobbying for no reductions and an environmental group (EG) lobbying for high reductions. 16 The more pressure a group exerts, the more it influences the policy outcome.…”

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“…This requires a reinterpretation of the cost and benefit functions associated with reducing emis- 15 See also Potters and Sloof (1996) for a survey of this type of model.…”

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Unilateral actions, the case of international environmental problems

Brandt

2004

Resource and Energy Economics

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Interest groups: A survey of empirical models that try to assess their influence

Cited by 213 publications

References 191 publications

Institutionalized pollution havens

Institutionalized pollution havens

Interest Group Behavior and Influence

Unilateral actions, the case of international environmental problems

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