This article presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating emissions permits. In the stylized model, industries represented by more powerful lobby groups face a lowe...

Abstract The article explores how macro-level political factors in conjunction with micro- and meso-level affect interest-group access to policymakers. analysis is conducted based on two original data sets: a population ecology database of Czech, Hungarian, Polish Slovenian national-level energy policy, healthcare higher education organizations, an online survey these populations. Combining the...

OBJECTIVE To describe the knowledge of, and experience with, the Interest Group in Family Medicine (IgFM) at the University of Toronto, among undergraduate medical students; to explore the effects of the IgFM on undergraduate medical students; and to help determine future directions for the IgFM and other family medicine interest groups in Canada. DESIGN Qualitative descriptive design and foc...