Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest
将政府多项政策决策中的游说视为政府与多个特殊利益集团之间的竞赛，政府通过向某些集团“出售保护”以积累政治资本，直至确保赢得所有剩余竞赛。
When a government makes many different policy decisions, lobbying can be viewed as a contest between the government and many different special interest groups. The government fights lobbying by interest groups with its own political capital. In this world, we find that a government wants to ‘sell protection’ – give favourable treatment in exchange for contributions – to certain interest groups. It does this in order to build its own ‘war chest’ of political capital, which improves its position in fights with other interest groups. And it does so until it wins all remaining contests with certainty. This stands in contrast to existing models that often view lobbying as driven by information or agency problems.