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Coronavirus, lobbying, special-interest groups
Abstract:
Special-interest groups seize the opportunity of a crisis to bring their old proposals back into politics. The Corona pandemic provides ample evidence for the revival of old proposals: higher wages for social professions, scrapping bonuses for replacing old cars, demands for more self-sufficient economies, more state-ownership, more government access to private data and calls for long-lasting changes of the fiscal constitution of the European Union.
