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In this paper, we develop a simple model of the rights a government provides its citizenry. Rights are treated as public goods and taken as primitives in agents utility functions; each agent has preferences over the entire policy vector. We model the interaction among citi-zens and the government as a game in which an exogenous lobbying set makes contributions to the government to in uence policy formu-lation in the matter of rights. When examining contribution schedules comprising truthful Nash strategies, we find that members of the lob-bying set obtain rights closer to their most-preferred bundle, while the rights of non-lobbyers further diverge from their most-preferred bun-dle. Further, if the lobbying set comprises the entire population, the government s allocation of rights does not differ from the allocation achieved in the absence of contributions.

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Paper provided by University of Connecticut, Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 2005-53.

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Length: 22 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2005
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Handle: RePEc:uct:uconnp:2005-53

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Keywords: contributions; political economy; rights; voting;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

• D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
• D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
• D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation
• H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
• P48 - Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2005-12-14 (All new papers)
• NEP-ICT-2005-12-14 (Information & Communication Technologies)
• NEP-PBE-2005-12-14 (Public Economics)
• NEP-POL-2005-12-14 (Positive Political Economics)

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