Construindo leis: os construtores e as concessões de serviços
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In this paper, a study of the articulation of business interests during federal law-making processes is presented, focusing on the Brazilian constructors' behavior during the concession of public services.Abstract:
Mancur Olsons theory of collective action - especially his concepts of free-riding and exploitation of the great by the small - helps explain how Brazilian constructors organizations behaved while the federal legislation on concession of public services was being made. This article contributes to the study of the articulation of business interests during federal law-making processes.read more
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O Lobby da Indústria no Congresso Nacional: Empresariado e Política no Brasil Contemporâneo*
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Presidential Power, Legislative Organization, and Party Behavior in Brazil
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Interest groups: A survey of empirical models that try to assess their influence
Jan Potters,Randolph Sloof +1 more
TL;DR: A broad survey of the literature on interest group politics can be found in this paper, where the authors provide a more complete picture of the results, however, a broad survey seems useful.
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Economic Power and Political Influence: The Impact of Industry Structure on Public Policy
TL;DR: The authors identify five aspects of economic structure likely to affect an industry's political influence (firm size, industry size, market concentration, profitability, arid geographic dispersion) and test these aspects by analyzing how well they account for variations among industries in their success at securing public policies of benefit to them, especially in two policy arenas: federal corporate income taxes and state excise taxes.
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Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress
TL;DR: This article reviewed research published in the last decade that explores how lobbyists and interest groups influence the actions of the U.S. Congress and found a rich, but often conflicting, set of findings about the influence of interest groups.