15:00 - 16:40
P14
Room:
Room: Meeting Room 2.3
Panel Session 14
Lorenzo Crippa - Insulator or Conductor? Corporate Ownership and the Effect of Criminal Scandals
Jan Stuckatz, Heike Klüver - Public Support for Lobbying Disclosure: Evidence from a Conjoint experiment in Germany and the UK
Nelson Ruiz - The "hidden" power of money: how campaign contributions to legislators buy influence through executive action
Ameetosri (Amy) Basu - Less Bread, Less Taxes: Formalizing Theories of State Capture
Public Support for Lobbying Disclosure: Evidence from a Conjoint experiment in Germany and the UK
P14-2
Presented by: Jan Stuckatz, Heike Klüver
Jan Stuckatz 1Heike Klüver 1, Kai-Uwe Schnapp 2
1 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2 Universität Hamburg

Lobbying disclosure rules are discussed in many countries as means to increase transparency and curb conflicts of interests of politicians, but often face staunch opposition from policy-makers. Even though public support is important for implementing major transparency reforms to overcome political opposition, we know little about whether voters actually support increases to disclosure and transparency. We use a cross-country conjoint experiment administered in Germany and the United Kingdom to investigate the effect of rule strength, institutional coverage, and sanctions on popular support for regulations on lobbying disclosure, transparency of outside income, and limits on revolving door. Moreover, we investigate how lobbying disclosure rules affect vote choice and political trust. The results have important implications for the design of accountability and transparency mechanisms and the electoral costs of these rules to policy-makers.