In its group-centered formulation, the economic theory of politics recognizes that the distortion of information figures prominently in the arsenals of organized interest groups. This paper builds a case for according equal significance to informational distortions perpetrated by ordinary individuals. Preference falsification on the part of individuals distorts not only the process of political choice but also the evolution of the beliefs that underlie people's political disposotions. Organized groups know that preference falsification is a feature of individual political behavior, and by various means they try to exploit it.
 

In The Competitive State, ed. A. Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon, and R. Wintrobe (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1990): 71-95.