Futility and free-riding: Corporate political participation and taxation rates in the United States

Business and Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Drope, Jeffrey M ^a,c,d   Hansen, Wendy L ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d University of New Mexico ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Free riding; Lobbying; Taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649095865     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1238     Document Type: Article

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