Vying for support: Lobbying a legislator with uncertain preferences

• Main Authors: Go, Anne Marie L., Kokonas, Nikolaos, Rivas, Javier
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Lobbying; Legislation; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/9510
• Institution: De La Salle University

We consider a model where two opposing lobbyists bid for the support of a legislator with an integrity threshold and an uncertain bias towards either lobbyist. We find that higher winning valuations drive more aggressive lobbying, while higher legislator’s integrity thresholds pushes toward more con...