ON BUYING LEGISLATURES
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James M. Snyder JR
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper analyzes a simple spatial voting model that includes lobbyists who are able to buy votes on bills to change the status quo. The key results are: (i) if lobbyists can discriminate across legislators when buying votes, then they will pay the largest bribes to legislators who are slightly op