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Abstract
In this paper we present a two stage game of political lobbying for policies designed to enhance
environmental quality. Unlike previous work which has tended to assume perfect monitoring of
environmental quality in lobbying games we allow for imperfect monitoring of environmental quality.
We characterize perfect public (politico-economic) equilibria in the game for the case of both perfect
and imperfect monitoring of environmental quality and compare these with imperfect private
monitoring of environmental quality. Results are discussed with respect to farmer behaviour in the
context of non-point source pollution and implications for the political consequences of farm
extension programmes highlighted.