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January 2009, Volume 138, Issue 1
- 45-64 Pre-electoral commitments and government formation
by Marc Debus - 65-81 Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
by César Calderón & Alberto Chong - 83-95 False advertising and experience goods: the case of political services in the U.S. senate
by Franklin Mixon & Rand Ressler & M. Gibson - 97-108 Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: an empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting
by David Laband & Ram Pandit & John Sophocleus & Anne Laband - 109-136 Does Wal-Mart reduce social capital?
by Art Carden & Charles Courtemanche & Jeremy Meiners - 137-160 Ideologies, vested interest groups, and postal saving privatization in Japan
by Masami Imai - 161-169 Public goods, group size, and the degree of rivalry
by Paul Pecorino - 171-197 Non-voted ballots, the cost of voting, and race
by John Lott - 199-216 Voluntary contributions with imperfect information: An experimental study
by M. Levati & Andrea Morone & Annamaria Fiore - 217-219 The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment
by Randall Holcombe - 221-238 Individual campaign contributions and candidate ideology
by Michael Ensley - 239-253 Voting on income tax exemptions
by Salvatore Barbaro & Jens Suedekum - 255-256 Magnus Henrekson and Robin Douhan: The political economy of entrepreneurship, 2 vols
by Randall Holcombe - 257-258 Johann Graf Lambsdorff, The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy
by Friedrich Schneider - 259-261 Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe, eds., The Economics of Transparency in Politics
by Christopher Coyne
December 2008, Volume 137, Issue 3
- 429-438 Homo economicus and homo politicus: an introduction
by Geoffrey Brennan - 439-450 Is the political realm more encompassing than the economic realm?
by Tracy Strong - 451-461 Passions and interests revisited: the psychological foundations of economics and politics
by Ruth Grant - 463-468 Are homo economicus and homo politicus identical twins?
by Russell Hardin - 469-474 In search of homunculus politicus
by James Buchanan - 475-489 Psychological dimensions in voter choice
by Geoffrey Brennan - 491-505 Brief lives: economic life and political life in the history of economic thought
by Shannon Stimson & Murray Milgate - 507-522 Economic choice, political decision, and the problem of limits
by Michael Munger - 523-524 Afterword
by Michael Gillespie
October 2008, Volume 137, Issue 1
- 1-10 Implications of the ‘bread and peace’ model for the 2008 US presidential election
by Douglas Hibbs - 11-19 Why does government produce national defense?
by Randall Holcombe - 21-41 The European Commission–Appointment, preferences, and institutional relations
by Stefan Napel & Mika Widgrén - 43-55 Can we insure against political uncertainty? Evidence from the U.S. stock market
by Andrea Mattozzi - 57-80 Public spending interactions and local politics. Empirical evidence from French municipalities
by Martial Foucault & Thierry Madies & Sonia Paty - 81-102 International migration and the role of institutions
by Graziella Bertocchi & Chiara Strozzi - 103-117 Bribery and public procurement: an experimental study
by Susanne Büchner & Andreas Freytag & Luis González & Werner Güth - 119-126 The fiscal effects of statehood: New Mexico and Arizona, 1903–1919
by Stephanie Moussalli - 127-143 Correlated payoffs in the inspection game: some theory and an application to corruption
by Tim Friehe - 145-171 The political economy of IMF forecasts
by Axel Dreher & Silvia Marchesi & James Vreeland - 173-195 Elemental tests of the traditional rational voting model
by Darren Grant & Michael Toma - 197-206 Optimal central banker contracts and common agency: a comment
by Juan Campoy & Juan Negrete - 207-220 Selecting the Condorcet Winner: single-stage versus multi-stage voting rules
by Michael Peress - 221-244 What’s in a poll? Incentives for truthful reporting in pre-election opinion surveys
by Jeremy Burke & Curtis Taylor - 245-278 Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample
by Konstantinos Angelopoulos & Apostolis Philippopoulos & Efthymios Tsionas - 279-299 Bringing home the bacon: an empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics
by Andrew Leigh - 301-314 Fiscal policy and reelection in Brazilian municipalities
by Sergio Sakurai & Naercio Menezes-Filho - 315-328 Surprise party
by Robert Grafstein & Kiki Caruson - 329-345 Separation of powers and political budget cycles
by Alejandro Saporiti & Jorge Streb - 347-368 Ideological extremism and electoral design. Multimember versus single member districts
by Anthony Bertelli & Lilliard Richardson - 369-401 Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons
by J. Ferris & Soo-Bin Park & Stanley Winer - 403-426 Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification
by Shin-Hwan Chiang & Ahmed Mahmud - 427-428 New publications in fiscal sociology
by Jürgen Backhaus
September 2008, Volume 136, Issue 3
- 255-267 Political fragmentation, fiscal deficits and political institutionalisation
by Robert Elgie & Iain McMenamin - 269-282 The institutions of economic freedom and entrepreneurship: evidence from panel data
by Kristina Nyström - 283-291 Efforts in two-sided contests
by Gil Epstein & Shmuel Nitzan & Mordechai Schwarz - 293-313 Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention
by Keith Dougherty & Jac Heckelman - 315-330 The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don’t the rabble expropriate the rich?
by Alex Coram - 331-351 Delayed privatization
by Bernardo Bortolotti & Paolo Pinotti - 353-377 Parliamentary procedure: principal forms and political effects
by Thomas Schwartz - 379-396 Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia in EMU
by Mark Hallerberg & Guntram Wolff - 397-409 Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking
by Roger Faith & Brian Goff & Robert Tollison - 411-427 Political distortions in state forecasts
by Richard Boylan - 429-445 Per-capita public expenditures and population size: a non-parametric analysis using French data
by Robert Breunig & Yvon Rocaboy - 447-456 A welfare simulation of mixed-member electoral systems
by Jin-Hyuk Kim - 457-473 The impact of government structure on local public expenditures
by Lynn MacDonald - 475-495 Public sector efficiency: the roles of political and budgetary institutions, fiscal capacity, and democratic participation
by Lars-Erik Borge & Torberg Falch & Per Tovmo - 497-500 Christopher J. Coyne: After war: the political economy of exporting democracy
by William Shughart
July 2008, Volume 136, Issue 1
- 1-17 Mr. Smith and the economy: the influence of economic conditions on individual legislator voting
by Edward López & Carlos Ramírez - 19-37 Paying the partners
by T. Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 39-54 How to make a dis-entrepreneur of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur: the impact of institutional settings on growth
by Giuseppe Eusepi & Edgar Wilson - 55-67 Biased contests
by Matthias Dahm & Nicolás Porteiro - 69-86 A simple way of estimating interest group ideology
by Amy McKay - 87-101 Does restricting choice in referenda enable governments to spend more?
by Randall Holcombe & Lawrence Kenny - 103-122 Can tax evasion tame Leviathan governments?
by Frode Brevik & Manfred Gärtner - 123-138 Do fiscal rules cause budgetary outcomes?
by Signe Krogstrup & Sébastien Wälti - 139-164 Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis
by Axel Dreher & Peter Nunnenkamp & Rainer Thiele - 165-180 Bargaining in the appointment process, constrained delegation and the political weight of the Senate
by Aggey Semenov - 181-200 Auctions or grandfathering: the political economy of tradable emission permits
by Yu-Bong Lai - 201-213 A distributive N-amendment game with endogenous agenda formation
by Elizabeth Penn - 215-239 Selling favors in the lab: experiments on campaign finance reform
by Daniel Houser & Thomas Stratmann - 241-244 Adrian Vermeule. Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small
by Christopher Coyne - 245-247 Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, & Thomas E. Flanagan, eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
by Edward Stringham - 249-251 Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin (eds.): Democracy, Freedom, and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach
by Benjamin Powell - 253-254 John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia, Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey’s Most Influential Writings
by Arthur Denzau & Ravi Roy
June 2008, Volume 135, Issue 3
- 89-90 The vote motive
by Gordon Tullock - 91-107 Using state-level simulations in a political economy model of US trade policy
by Hugh Arce & Robert Koopman & Marinos Tsigas - 109-123 How does ideology matter in the spatial model of voting?
by Garrett Beeler Asay - 125-130 A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions
by Hao Jia - 131-150 Partisan politics and stock market performance: The effect of expected government partisanship on stock returns in the 2002 German federal election
by Roland Füss & Michael Bechtel - 151-164 Liberalization and rent-seeking in China’s labor market
by John Bishop & Haiyong Liu - 165-182 The second-order dilemma of public goods and capital accumulation
by Akira Okada - 183-205 Political freedom, economic freedom, and income convergence: Do stages of economic development matter?
by Zhenhui Xu & Haizheng Li - 207-223 Political instability and inflation volatility
by Ari Aisen & Francisco Veiga - 225-236 Rent-seeking contests with incomplete information
by Mark Fey - 237-255 Going once, going twice, sold! The committee assignment process as an all-pay auction
by Daniel Lee - 257-276 Social preferences and private provision of public goods: A ‘double critical mass’ model
by Angelo Antoci & Pier Sacco & Luca Zarri - 277-289 Step return versus net reward in the voluntary provision of a threshold public good: An adversarial collaboration
by Charles Cadsby & Rachel Croson & Melanie Marks & Elizabeth Maynes - 291-300 Influencing rent-seeking contests
by Robert Ritz - 301-317 Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence?
by Benny Geys & Jan Vermeir - 319-336 Supersized votes: ballot length, uncertainty, and choice in direct legislation elections
by Peter Selb - 337-352 US presidential elections and real GDP growth, 1961–2004
by Kevin Grier - 353-373 Making the first move
by Hanna Bäck & Patrick Dumont - 375-397 The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror
by Jean-Paul Azam & Véronique Thelen - 399-413 Functional unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment
by William Heller & K. Sieberg - 415-448 Trending economic factors and the structure of Congress in the growth of government, 1930–2002
by Stanley Winer & Michael Tofias & Bernard Grofman & John Aldrich - 449-468 Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political business cycle?
by J. Ferris - 469-484 Swing and a myth: a review of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter
by Loren Lomasky - 485-487 Reflections on Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter
by Gordon Tullock - 489-492 John Samples. The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
by William Anderson - 493-496 Peter Emerson, ed., Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy: Consensual Voting Procedures For Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees
by Joel Parker - 497-499 Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad (Eds.) Institutions and Norms in Economic Development
by Mwangi Kimenyi - 501-503 Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (eds.): Political competition and economic regulation
by Horst Feldmann
April 2008, Volume 135, Issue 1
- 1-2 Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to spontaneous order studies
by Peter Boettke - 3-10 Maximizing behavior & market forces: the microfoundations of spontaneous order theorizing in Gordon Tullock’s contributions to Smithian political economy
by Peter Boettke - 11-22 The Politics of Bureaucracy and the failure of post-war reconstruction
by Christopher Coyne - 23-34 Gordon Tullock’s The Organization of Inquiry: A critical appraisal
by Bruce Caldwell - 35-53 Spontaneous order and the common law: Gordon Tullock’s critique
by Todd Zywicki - 55-66 Finding social dilemma: West of Babel, not east of Eden
by Richard Wagner - 67-78 Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order
by Peter Leeson - 79-88 Thinking about order without thought: the lifetime contributions of Gordon Tullock
by Michael Munger
March 2008, Volume 134, Issue 3
- 139-146 Rational benevolence in small committees
by Derek Clark & Christian Riis - 147-161 What makes fiscal consolidations last? A survival analysis of budget cuts in Europe (1960–2004)
by Reyes Illera & Carlos Mulas-Granados - 163-178 Public pensions and return migration
by Tim Krieger - 179-199 Extension of the portfolio allocation model to surplus majority governments: a fuzzy approach
by Terry Clark & Jennifer Larson & John Mordeson & Mark Wierman - 201-229 The political legislation cycle
by Francesco Lagona & Fabio Padovano - 231-246 A power measure analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado
by Claus Beisbart & Luc Bovens - 247-254 Voting to anger and to please others
by Amihai Glazer - 255-262 The optimal jury size when jury deliberation follows a random walk
by Eric Helland & Yaron Raviv - 263-292 The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data
by Axel Dreher & Jan-Egbert Sturm & Heinrich Ursprung - 293-305 The extent of the population paradox in the Hungarian electoral system
by Attila Tasnádi - 307-328 Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence
by Christian Bjørnskov & Nicolai Foss - 329-346 Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states
by Nathan Ashby & Russell Sobel - 347-366 Provoking a civil war
by Lorenzo Rocco & Zié Ballo - 367-389 An economic or political Kuznets curve?
by Henry Tam - 391-417 Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960)
by Toke Aidt & Bianca Dallal - 419-427 Optimal taxation and economic growth: a comment
by Roderick Hill - 429-443 Performance and prize decomposition in contests
by Gil Epstein & Shmuel Nitzan & Mordechai Schwarz - 445-462 The choice of insurance in the labor market
by Michael Neugart - 463-488 Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries
by George Economides & Sarantis Kalyvitis & Apostolis Philippopoulos - 489-490 A rejoinder to “A commentary on ‘Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?’ ”
by Burton Abrams - 491-493 Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State and Public Choice
by Daniel Sutter - 495-500 New publications
by Michael Munger - 501-504 Henry H. Bauer. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
by William Shughart
January 2008, Volume 134, Issue 1
- 1-13 Introduction: Blogs, politics and power: a special issue of Public Choice
by Daniel Drezner & Henry Farrell - 15-30 The power and politics of blogs
by Henry Farrell & Daniel Drezner - 31-46 Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China
by Rebecca MacKinnon - 47-65 Meet the bridgebloggers
by Ethan Zuckerman - 67-86 Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers
by Eszter Hargittai & Jason Gallo & Matthew Kane - 87-95 Neither Hayek nor Habermas
by Cass Sunstein - 97-108 What do bloggers do: an average day on an average political blog
by Laura McKenna & Antoinette Pole - 109-123 New competencies in democratic communication? Blogs, agenda setting and political participation
by Deva Woodly - 125-138 Blogging and political information: truth or truthiness?
by Michael Munger
December 2007, Volume 133, Issue 3
- 259-267 Opaque rather than transparent: Why the public cannot monitor monetary policy
by Michael Belongia - 269-273 Federal Reserve transparency: The more things change, the more they stay the same?
by Rob McGregor - 275-295 Staff growth in international organizations: A principal-agent problem? An empirical analysis
by Roland Vaubel & Axel Dreher & Uğurlu Soylu - 297-319 Do political variables affect fiscal policy adjustment decisions? New empirical evidence
by Jochen Mierau & Richard Jong-A-Pin & Jakob de Haan - 321-341 Tax policies in a globalized world: Is it politics after all?
by Antonis Adam & Pantelis Kammas - 343-358 Interest group activity and long-run stock market performance
by Dennis Coates & Bonnie Wilson - 359-375 Rank injustice?: How the scoring method for cross-country running competitions violates major social choice principles
by Thomas Hammond - 377-391 Determinants of interest group formation
by Dennis Coates & Jac Heckelman & Bonnie Wilson - 393-415 The effect of monetary unification on public debt and its real return
by Roel Beetsma & Koen Vermeylen - 417-437 Electoral cycles in the administration of criminal justice
by Andrew Dyke - 439-456 The social sub-optimality of competitive elections
by Justin Buchler - 457-477 The political economy of intergovernmental grants: Evidence from a maturing democracy
by Linda Veiga & Maria Pinho - 479-494 Legislative term limits and state spending
by H. Erler - 495-495 Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice
by Randall Holcombe - 497-498 Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice
by Robert Tollison - 499-501 Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice
by Roger Congleton - 503-505 Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice
by Martin Ricketts
October 2007, Volume 133, Issue 1
- 1-11 The merits of Neo-Downsian modeling of the alternative vote: A reply to Horowitz
by Jon Fraenkel & Bernard Grofman - 13-23 Where have all the parties gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the alternative vote – yet again
by Donald Horowitz - 25-29 Individual rationality and bargaining
by Abraham Diskin & Dan Felsenthal - 31-40 Political extremism in the presence of a free rider problem
by Elie Appelbaum & Eliakim Katz - 41-55 Campaign spending and office-seeking motivations: an empirical analysis
by Joaquín Artés & Enrique Viñuela - 57-72 The political economy linkage between trade liberalization and domestic environmental regulations
by Yu-Bong Lai - 73-90 The Borda rule is also intended for dishonest men
by Aki Lehtinen - 91-105 Election campaign resource allocation
by David Yi - 107-110 Campaign finance reform and electoral competition: Comment
by Thomas Stratmann & Francisco Aparicio-Castillo - 111-128 Explaining legislators’ positions on outside income limits: Voting on honoraria ceilings in the U.S. Senate, 1981–1983
by Beth Rosenson - 129-145 Blood and ink! The common-interest-game between terrorists and the media
by Dominic Rohner & Bruno Frey - 147-155 An analysis of rent-seeking games with relative-payoff maximizers
by Thomas Riechmann - 157-169 Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation
by Wolfgang Buchholz & Wolfgang Peters - 171-198 Monopoly rights in the privatization of telephone firms
by Bruno Viani - 199-229 Crowding-out in productive and redistributive rent-seeking
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Eric Langlais & Bruno Lovat & Francesco Parisi - 231-251 Kyoto Protocol cooperation: Does government corruption facilitate environmental lobbying?
by Per Fredriksson & Eric Neumayer & Gergely Ujhelyi - 253-256 Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice
by Peter Leeson - 257-258 Barry G. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
by Randall Holcombe
September 2007, Volume 132, Issue 3
- 255-256 Editorial announcement
by William Shughart & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Michael Munger - 257-271 Understanding the development of fundamentalism
by Gil Epstein & Ira Gang - 273-289 Motivation of politicians and long-term policies
by Markus Müller - 291-304 Nonexpert beliefs about the macroeconomic consequences of economic and noneconomic events
by Michael Roos - 305-318 A distributional theory of government growth
by Holger Strulik - 319-332 Colluding victims: A public choice analysis of international alliances
by Philip Jones - 333-352 Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance
by Roger Congleton - 353-366 Asymmetric payoffs in simultaneous and sequential prisoner’s dilemma games
by T. Ahn & Myungsuk Lee & Lore Ruttan & James Walker - 367-400 The paradox of legal harmonization
by Emanuela Carbonara & Francesco Parisi - 401-420 A minimax procedure for electing committees
by Steven Brams & D. Kilgour & M. Sanver - 421-432 Reduce transaction costs? Yes. Strengthen property rights? Maybe: The First Nations Land Management Act and economic development on Canadian Indian reserves
by Christopher Alcantara - 433-436 A commentary on “Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?”
by Jerry Tempelman - 437-456 An empirical test of why incumbents adopt campaign spending limits
by Thomas Evans - 457-470 Local choice of property taxation: evidence from Norway
by Jon Fiva & Jørn Rattsø - 471-484 How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?
by Helge Berger & Till Mueller - 485-502 Dupuit, Pigou and cost of inefficiency in public services provision
by António Afonso & Vítor Gaspar