  How does the politician's reputation concern affect information provision
when the information is endogenously provided by a biased lobbyist? I develop a
model to study this problem and show that the answer depends on the
transparency design. When the lobbyist's preference is publicly known, the
politician's reputation concern induces the lobbyist to provide more
information. When the lobbyist's preference is unknown, the politician's
reputation concern may induce the lobbyist to provide less information. One
implication of the result is that given transparent preferences, the
transparency of decision consequences can impede information provision by
moderating the politician's reputational incentive.
