The latest issue of the American Journal of Political Science Professor Ryan Hübert’s and PhD Student Jonathan Colner’s article on "Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence."

From the Abstract: "First, when an individual from a special interest group goes into government, this can paradoxically reduce the special interest's influence over public policy. Second, this individual has an endogenous incentive to enter government even though doing so weakens the special interest, whose preferences the individual shares. The model suggests that politicians' efforts to stop the practice of hiring individuals from special interest groups can counterintuitively increase special interest influence over politics."