Re: lobbying as a public goods problem

Wei wrote "Reading Jonathan Rauch's _Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620495) made me wonder how special-interest lobbies solved the public goods problem." See Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action and The Rise and Fall of

lobbying as a public goods problem

Reading Jonathan Rauch's _Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620495) made me wonder how special-interest lobbies solved the public goods problem. Why does an individual contribute to a lobbying organization when he can let someone else