Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society
1991; Elsevier BV; Volume: 44; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0047-2727(91)90057-9
ISSN1879-2316
Autores Tópico(s)Land Rights and Reforms
ResumoThe 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.
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