Why is the government habit so difficult to break? Is it special interests? Just any special interests”?” His presentation was entitled, Bootleggers, Baptists and the Government Habit and you can watch a snippet of the full length the video below.
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Policy analysts, academics, journalists, and even politicians lament the influence of money on politics. But in the political economy, politicians often carefully design regulations so that two very different interest groups will be satisfied. The Bootlegger and Baptist theory, an innovative public choice theory developed more than 30 years ago, holds that for a regulation to emerge and endure, both the “bootleggers,” who seek to obtain private benefits from the regulation, and the “Baptists,” who seek to serve the public interest, must support the regulation.
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