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Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship

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  • Hirsch, Alexander V.

    (Princeton University)

  • Shotts, Kenneth W.

    (Stanford University)

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In political organizations, the process of developing new policies often involves competing policy entrepreneurs who make productive investments to make their proposals more appealing to decisionmakers. We analyze how entrepreneurs' extremism and costs of crafting high-quality proposals affect patterns of competition and policy outcomes. A centrist decisionmaker can bene.t from extremism of proposers and proposals, once we account for proposals' endogenously-determined quality. Lower costs spur investment, but entrepreneurs extract some ideological rents. When the contest is highly asymmetric, one entrepreneur almost always wins, but the decisionmaker benefits from the threat of competition.

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  • Hirsch, Alexander V. & Shotts, Kenneth W., 2013. "Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship," Research Papers 2137, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  • Handle: RePEc:ecl:stabus:2137
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    1. Alessandro Bonatti & Heikki Rantakari, 2016. "The Politics of Compromise," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(2), pages 229-259, February.

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