%S TSE Working Paper %A Vera Zaporozhets %T A Note on Lobbying a Legislature %X We study a simple in?uence game, in which a lobby tries to manipulate the decision of a legislature via monetary offers to one or more members. We compute the minimum budget needed for the lobby to pass the bill and the distribution of this budget between the legislators. We also show the connection of the problem to the combinatorial optimization. %K Legislative lobbying %K Combinatorial optimization %K Knapsack problem %B TSE Working Paper %V 16-673 %D 2016 %C Toulouse %I TSE Working Paper %L publications22221