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December 2024, Volume 201, Issue 3
- 377-385 Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue
by Pablo Paniagua & Veeshan Rayamajhee & Ilia Murtazashvili - 387-408 On the nature and structure of externalities
by Pablo Paniagua & Veeshan Rayamajhee - 409-428 Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum
by Thomas W. Hazlett & Ali F. Palida & Martin B. H. Weiss - 429-450 The institutional structure of pollution: large-scale externalities and the common law
by Larry Eubanks & Glenn L. Furton - 451-469 Government externalities
by Aris Trantidis - 471-494 Two (lay) dogmas on externalities
by Vaughn Bryan Baltzly - 495-510 Externality as a coordination problem
by Marek Hudik - 511-531 Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons
by Nathan Goodman & Otto Lehto - 533-553 Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?
by Erwin Dekker & Pavel Kuchař - 555-556 Correction: Markets and knowledge commons: is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?
by Erwin Dekker & Pavel Kuchař - 557-578 Novel externalities
by Nick Cowen & Eric Schliesser - 579-606 Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic
by Byron Carson - 607-622 Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice
by Ilia Murtazashvili & Yang Zhou
October 2024, Volume 201, Issue 1
- 1-20 The medieval church as an economic firm?
by David d’Avray - 21-26 Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison
by Robert F. Hébert - 27-38 Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method
by Alexander William Salter - 39-51 Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray
by Anthony Gill - 53-60 Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens
by Mark Koyama - 61-81 The political economy of paternalism
by Kai A. Konrad - 83-122 Housing values and jurisdictional fragmentation
by John William Hatfield & Katrina Kosec & Luke P. Rodgers - 123-143 Attentiveness in elections with impressionable voters
by Costel Andonie & Daniel Diermeier - 145-179 Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes
by Kaustav Das & Atisha Ghosh & Pushkar Maitra - 181-198 How to choose a compatible committee?
by Ritu Dutta & Rajnish Kumar & Surajit Borkotokey - 199-235 The electoral effect of pork barrel politics: evidence from England
by Johannes Lattmann - 237-261 Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level
by Michela Chessa & Patrick Loiseau - 263-285 Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions
by Eric Cardella & Briggs Depew & Ryan B. Williams - 287-308 A unified approach to measuring unequal representation
by Junichiro Wada & Yuta Kamahara - 309-325 Corruption, bribery, and market reform
by Hamid Beladi & Sugata Marjit & Vivekananda Mukherjee - 327-353 Affirmative action in large population tullock contests
by Ratul Lahkar & Rezina Sultana - 355-376 Revolutions and corruption
by Joshua D. Ammons & Shishir Shakya
September 2024, Volume 200, Issue 3
- 349-355 Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 357-381 Quiet revolutions in early-modern England
by Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell - 383-401 Islamic revolution and Anfal
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 403-422 Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution
by Tariq Basir & Ilia Murtazashvili & Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili - 423-455 Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?
by Justin T. Callais & Andrew T. Young - 457-472 You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals
by Jack A. Goldstone - 473-495 Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes
by Benjamin Abrams - 497-529 Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion
by Pierre Courtois & Rabia Nessah & Tarik Tazdaït - 531-560 Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change
by Diego F. Grijalva - 561-586 Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism
by Jean-Paul Carvalho & Jared Rubin & Michael Sacks - 587-588 Correction to: Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism
by Jean-Paul Carvalho & Jared Rubin & Michael Sacks - 589-601 Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)
by Vladimir Maltsev - 603-626 On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children
by Louis Rouanet - 627-647 Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018
by Charles H. Anderton & Jurgen Brauer
July 2024, Volume 200, Issue 1
- 1-24 The political economy of criminal governance
by David Skarbek - 25-42 Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 43-64 Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy
by Alexandru Savu - 65-88 The political business cycle of tax reforms
by Lucia Rossel Flores & Martijn Huysmans & Joras Ferwerda - 89-118 A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state
by António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio - 119-147 Promotion prospects and policy choice: evidence from the land market in China
by Chang Xue & Xiaoyu Zhang - 149-171 Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity
by Asaf D. M. Nitzan & Shmuel I. Nitzan - 173-199 Conflict under the shadow of elections
by Antonis Adam & Maxime Menuet & Petros G. Sekeris - 201-236 Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework
by Antonis Adam & Evi Tsavou - 237-256 Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics
by Christian J. Sander - 257-284 ‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers
by Andrea Cintolesi - 285-292 Axiomatization of plurality refinements
by Ali I. Ozkes & M. Remzi Sanver - 293-321 Regional favoritism in access to credit
by Francis Osei-Tutu & Laurent Weill - 323-345 Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession
by Aycan Katitas & Sonal Pandya - 347-348 Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival
by Andreas Kern & Bernhard Reinsberg & Patrick E. Shea
June 2024, Volume 199, Issue 3
- 187-191 The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue
by Terry L. Anderson & Ilia Murtazashvili & Dominic P. Parker - 193-211 Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era
by Christian Dippel & Dustin Frye & Bryan Leonard - 213-231 A reservation economic freedom index
by T. Stratmann - 233-255 Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians
by D. Bruce Johnsen - 257-283 The political economy of climate action in Indian Country
by Tessa Provins - 285-318 When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada
by Donn. L. Feir & Maggie E. C. Jones & David Scoones - 319-340 Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos
by Adam Crepelle & Paasha Mahdavi & Dominic Parker - 341-366 The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions
by Ennio E. Piano & Louis Rouanet - 367-385 Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country
by Adam Crepelle & Tate Fegley & Ilia Murtazashvili - 387-404 Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy
by Melinda C. Miller - 405-419 Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country
by Terry L. Anderson & Dominic P. Parker
April 2024, Volume 199, Issue 1
- 1-5 Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue
by Simon Medcalfe & Shane Sanders - 7-26 Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings
by Shane Sanders & Justin Ehrlich & James Boudreau - 27-44 Borda count in a forward agenda
by Keith L. Dougherty & Robi Ragan - 45-63 Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach
by Justin Ehrlich & Simon Medcalfe & Shane Sanders - 65-81 The Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis re-examined using tax freedom measures: the case of post-Great Recession state-level gross in-migration
by Richard J. Cebula - 83-101 Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons
by Jeremy Kettering & Shane Sanders - 103-135 Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes
by Yang-Ming Chang & Manaf Sellak - 137-157 The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions
by James W. Boudreau & Haikady N. Nagaraja & Lucas Rentschler & Shane D. Sanders - 159-186 Moderating (mis)information
by Jacob Meyer & Prithvijit Mukherjee & Lucas Rentschler
March 2024, Volume 198, Issue 3
- 237-268 The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same-sex marriage
by Clara E. Piano & Rachael Behr & Kacey Reeves West - 269-295 Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival
by Andreas Kern & Bernhard Reinsberg & Patrick E. Shea - 297-316 The political economy of rights
by Mario Ferrero - 317-342 Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors
by Emanuele Bracco & Marco Alberto De Benedetto & Maurizio Lisciandra - 343-360 Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus
by Anthony J. Evans - 361-376 Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy
by Simon C. Parker - 377-402 The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China
by Mian Yang & Ruofan He & Panbing Wan - 403-425 Regulatory independence may limit electoral holdup but entrench capture
by Arthur Schram & Aljaž Ule - 427-465 Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?
by Carla Morvan & Sonia Paty - 467-492 Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary
by Tamás Vasvári & Dóra Longauer - 493-529 Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
by Stefania Fontana & Giorgio d’Agostino - 531-593 Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
by Andreas Freytag & Miriam Kautz & Moritz Wolf
January 2024, Volume 198, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial announcement
by Peter T. Leeson - 3-23 More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias
by Fabio Motoki & Valdemar Pinho Neto & Victor Rodrigues - 25-45 Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19
by Sezer Yasar & Ceyhun Elgin - 47-67 Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power
by Rafael Hortala-Vallve & Jaakko Meriläinen & Janne Tukiainen - 69-91 The impacts of political uncertainty on public financing costs: evidence from anti-corruption investigations in China
by Haoyu Gao & Fukang Chen & Yiling Ouyang - 93-127 Regulatory capture in a resource boom
by Timothy Fitzgerald - 129-151 Road maintenance over the local election cycle
by Margaret Bock & Benjamin Blemings - 153-159 Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note
by Nicholas R. Miller - 161-187 Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing?
by Keith Ihlanfeldt & Cynthia Fan Yang - 189-207 Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size
by Andre Varella Mollick & Andre Coelho Vianna - 209-226 The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest
by Luke Petach - 227-230 Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)
by David J. Hebert - 231-235 Sebastián Edwards, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 343 pages. USD $27.49 (hardback)
by Pablo Paniagua
December 2023, Volume 197, Issue 3
- 317-324 Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue
by Ramon P. DeGennaro & Daniel J. Smith - 325-333 Does discrimination in lending still persist?
by Harold A Black - 335-346 Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance
by Michael Munger & Cameron Tilley - 347-370 Individualism and racial tolerance
by Claudia Williamson Kramer - 371-395 Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data
by Ken B. Cyree & Drew B. Winters - 397-420 Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap
by J. Brandon Bolen & Gregory Elliehausen & Thomas W. Miller - 421-432 ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment
by Nicholas Reinarts & Vitor Melo - 433-454 Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods?
by Craig J. Richardson & Zachary D. Blizard - 455-470 Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa
by Edward Peter Stringham - 471-487 Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach
by Vitor Melo & Elijah Neilson
October 2023, Volume 197, Issue 1
- 1-62 Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers
by Wesley H. Holliday & Eric Pacuit - 63-87 Does the rule matter? A comparison of preference elicitation methods and voting rules based on data from an Austrian regional parliamentary election in 2019
by Andreas Darmann & Christian Klamler - 89-136 Wealth inequality and democracy
by Sutirtha Bagchi & Matthew J. Fagerstrom - 137-166 The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China
by Yaguang Zhang & Sitian Yu & Shengyi Zhang - 167-183 The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity
by Vincent Miozzi & Benjamin Powell - 185-199 Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery
by Phillip W. Magness & Art Carden & Ilia Murtazashvili - 201-225 Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households
by Jante Parlevliet & Massimo Giuliodori & Matthijs Rooduijn - 227-251 Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities
by Emanuel Wittberg & Mihály Fazekas - 253-282 Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests
by Ratul Lahkar & Rezina Sultana - 283-309 Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement
by Benjamin Monnery & François-Charles Wolff - 311-315 Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover)
by Jordan K. Lofthouse
September 2023, Volume 196, Issue 3
- 223-227 Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue
by Jordan Adamson & Lucas Rentschler - 229-255 Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications
by Florian Baumann & Sophie Bienenstock & Tim Friehe & Maiva Ropaul - 257-275 Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment
by Giuseppe Liddo & Andrea Morone - 277-298 The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents
by Moti Michaeli & Yosef Zohar - 299-329 Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment
by Jason Ralston & Jason Aimone & Lucas Rentschler & Charles North - 331-356 Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems
by Alice Guerra & Maria Maraki & Baptiste Massenot & Christian Thöni - 357-379 Bureaucratic beliefs and law enforcement
by Fuhai Hong & Dong Zhang - 381-401 The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?
by Sophie Bienenstock & Pierre Kopp - 403-425 Enumerating rights: more is not always better
by Sheryl Ball & Chetan Dave & Stefan Dodds - 427-452 Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials
by Natalia Candelo & Angela C. M. Oliveira & Catherine Eckel - 453-482 Do civilian complaints against police get punished?
by Gregory DeAngelo & Matthew Gomies & Rustam Romaniuc
July 2023, Volume 196, Issue 1
- 1-18 Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework
by Casey B. Mulligan - 19-50 Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect
by David McCune & Jennifer Wilson - 51-83 How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences
by Rik Chakraborti & Gavin Roberts - 85-122 Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act
by Daniel J. Smith & Macy Scheck - 123-140 From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets
by Tate Fegley & Ilia Murtazashvili - 141-156 In defense of knavish constitutions
by Brian Kogelmann - 157-167 The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice
by Randall G. Holcombe - 169-205 On two voting systems that combine approval and preferences: fallback voting and preference approval voting
by Eric Kamwa - 207-211 Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: a new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback)
by Ilia Murtazashvili - 213-215 Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism
by André Quintas - 217-222 Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)
by Ryan H. Murphy
June 2023, Volume 195, Issue 3
- 193-196 The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue
by Lars P. Feld & Daniel Nientiedt - 197-211 Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism
by Lars P. Feld & Ekkehard A. Köhler - 213-230 James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics
by Peter J. Boettke & M. Scott King - 231-250 The rule of rules
by Alan Hamlin - 251-268 Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency
by Viktor J. Vanberg - 269-281 The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory
by Hartmut Kliemt - 283-300 The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School
by Jan Schnellenbach - 301-322 Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits
by Roland Fritz & Nils Goldschmidt & Matthias Störring - 323-339 Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo
by Michael Munger & Georg Vanberg - 341-361 The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism
by Malte Dold & Tim Krieger - 363-376 Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?
by Ekkehard A. Köhler & Daniel Nientiedt - 377-404 Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?
by Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt
April 2023, Volume 195, Issue 1
- 1-3 The political economy of public health
by Glenn L. Furton & Mario J. Rizzo & David A. Harper - 5-41 Public choice and public health
by Peter T. Leeson & Henry A. Thompson - 43-53 What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem
by Jonathan Anomaly - 55-72 Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates
by Brian C. Albrecht & Shruti Rajagopalan - 73-100 Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life
by Roger D. Congleton - 101-124 Public health and expert failure
by Roger Koppl - 125-143 Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom
by Mark Pennington - 145-167 Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?
by Mark Koyama - 169-191 The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined
by Glenn L. Furton
March 2023, Volume 194, Issue 3
- 231-231 Editorial announcement
by Peter T. Leeson - 233-247 How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile
by Guillermo Larrain & Gabriel Negretto & Stefan Voigt - 249-275 Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime
by Touria Jaaidane & Olivier Musy & Ronan Tallec - 277-295 Identifying the regulator’s objective: Does political support matter?
by Zach Raff - 297-324 Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?
by Wei-Fong Pan - 325-346 Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash & J. Stephen Ferris & Marcel-Cristian Voia - 347-367 Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates
by Navid Sabet - 369-393 The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland
by Vincent Munley & Abian Garcia-Rodriguez & Paul Redmond - 395-420 Economics as moral exchange: James Buchanan meets Martin Buber
by Tyler J. Brough & Randy T Simmons - 421-426 Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm: Big data and the welfare state: how the information revolution threatens social solidarity
by Timothy Hicks - 427-430 Hong Liu, The political economy of transnational governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 220 Pages. USD 142.85 (Hardcover)
by Fatih Kırşanlı
January 2023, Volume 194, Issue 1
- 1-26 The redistributive politics of monetary policy
by Louis Rouanet & Peter Hazlett - 27-44 Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports
by Gustavo Bergantiños & Juan D. Moreno-Ternero - 45-74 Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation
by Katharina Momsen & Markus Ohndorf - 75-99 Party leaders as welfare-maximizing coalition builders in the pursuit of party-related public goods
by Ryan J. Vander Wielen - 101-155 Public employment and homeownership dynamics
by Andrea Camilli & Pedro Gomes - 157-179 Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited
by Maximilian Kellner - 181-203 Serving two masters: the effect of state religion on fiscal capacity
by Antonis Adam & Sofia Tsarsitalidou - 205-223 The grass is not greener on the other side: the role of attention in voting behavior
by Lucie Coufalová & Štěpán Mikula - 225-228 Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 314 Pages. USD 32.99 (Paperback)
by Fatih Kırşanlı - 229-230 John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale
by Egor Bronnikov
December 2022, Volume 193, Issue 3
- 127-132 Collaboration as communication: writing with Geoffrey Brennan
by Loren Lomasky - 133-139 Geoffrey Brennan: scholar and gentleman
by Keith Dowding - 141-162 From Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies
by Alexander Theisen & Lynne Kiesling & Michael Munger - 163-186 Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic
by Samira Guennif - 187-209 How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?
by Lana Krehic - 211-231 Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?
by Pál Czeglédi - 233-261 The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries
by Florian Haelg & Niklas Potrafke & Jan-Egbert Sturm - 263-274 Optimal lockdowns
by David J. Hebert & Michael D. Curry - 275-291 The Brexit referendum and three types of regret
by Stephen Drinkwater & Colin Jennings - 293-313 Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests
by Oliver Engist & Felix Schafmeister