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We gratefully acknowledge helpful comments by Bruno S. Frey, Gebhard Kirchgaessner, Werner W. Pommerehne and Hannelore Weck, University of Zürich, Switzerland. We also thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support (Grant 1.821-1.78) and acknowledge the help of Wendy Freuler in editing the paper for English.
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Schneider, F., Naumann, J. Interest groups in democracies — How influential are they?. Public Choice 38, 281–303 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144854
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