The early work from Olson (1965) an...

The early work from Olson (1965) and Tullock (1967) forward the political competition for economic crevices has fostered a growing material part of literature devoted to the investigation of pressure group influence upon public policy. For example rent-seeking behavior, with a focus forward the degree of rent dissipation, has been examined by way of a variety of researchers including Bhagwati (1987); Hillman and Samet (1987); Varian (1989) Others, including Becker (1983); Findlay and Wellisz (1982 1983); Nitzan (1991) have emphasized the nature of competition among urgency groups for political influence. This paper continues along this latter line of research according to developing a simple, ...