www.ij-ss.eu Model of public choice and political rent Agnieszka Bezat-Jarzebowska*, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Swie- tokrzyska 20, Warsaw 00-002, Poland Włodzimierz Rembisz, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Swietokrzyska 20, Warsaw 00-002, Poland Agata Sielska, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Swietokrzyska 20, War- saw 00-002, Poland Suggested Citation: Bezat-Jarzebowska, A., Rembisz, W. & Sielska, A. (2018). Model of public choice and political rent. International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences. 2(2), 49-57. Received from March 10, 2018; revised from August 05, 2018; accepted from November 1, 2018. Selection and peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Gulsun Atanur Baskan, Hacettepe University, Turkey. © 2018 SciencePark Research, Organization & Counseling. All rights reserved. Abstract It can be assumed that the scope of agricultural policy and connected with its financial streams are not accidental. Selection of a particular, policy defines a mechanism in which the benefits and costs are combined. Such an effort of describing and explaining the mechanism was presented in the paper. We use the concept of a public choice model. Issues of including political (or admin- istrative) interest in defining and shaping the policy are incorporated into the models of public choice. The authors assumed the rationality of decision makers and their goal to maximize their own utility. The analysis presented in the paper is some reference to one of the trends of political economy, according to which the emphasis is on the voters’ behaviour. Keywords: Public choice, political rent, agricultural policy, political-economic analysis. * ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Agnieszka Bezat-Jarzebowska, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute, Swietokrzyska 20, Warsaw 00-002, Poland. E-mail address: bezat.jarzebowska@gmail.com International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences Volume 2, Issue 2, (2018) 49-57