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December 2005, Volume 125, Issue 3
- 431-444 The limits of `independence' and the policy of the ECB^
by James Forder - 445-470 Political instability and growth in dictatorships
by Jody Overland & Kenneth Simons & Michael Spagat - 471-475 Gerry Mackie, Democracy defended. Contemporary Political Theory, ed. by Ian Shapiro
by Peter Stone - 477-480 John R. Lott, Jr., The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control is Wrong. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003. 349 pages. USD 27.95 (cloth)
by Dennis Coates - 481-485 Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova, Designing federalism: A theory of self-sustainable federal institutions
by Michael Alexeev
July 2005, Volume 125, Issue 1
- 1-15 Time inconsistency of monetary policy: Empirical evidence from polls
by Michael Berlemann - 17-41 A critical reappraisal of some voting power paradoxes
by Annick Laruelle & Federico Valenciano - 43-65 Assessing the citizen – candidate model
by Dan Usher - 67-94 Forming stable coalitions: The process matters
by Steven Brams & Michael Jones & D. Kilgour - 95-127 The effect of membership rules and voting schemes on the success of international climate agreements
by Michael Finus & Juan-Carlos Altamirano-Cabrera & Ekko Ierland - 129-149 Salience: Agenda choices by competing candidates
by Marcus Berliant & Hideo Konishi - 151-170 Unanimous constitutional consent and the immigration problem
by Stefan Josten & Klaus Zimmermann - 171-188 Tax morale and (de-)centralization: An experimental study
by Werner Güth & Vittoria Levati & Rupert Sausgruber - 189-202 Rigging elections with violence
by Ashish Chaturvedi - 203-213 Public choice and political philosophy: Reflections on the works of Gordon Spinoza and David Immanuel Buchanan
by Hartmut Kliemt - 215-228 Election campaigns, agenda setting and electoral outcomes
by Manfred Holler & Peter Skott - 229-234 Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
by William Shughart - 235-238 Appointing central bankers: The politics of monetary policy in the United States and the European Monetary Union. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
by Mark Toma - 239-242 Economic welfare, international business and global institutional change
by Shawn Humphrey - 243-245 Signaling goodness: Social rules and public choice
by David Laband
September 2005, Volume 124, Issue 3
- 249-266 Non-binding linked-issues referenda: Analysis and an application
by Timo Goeschl - 267-282 “Public goods”: An exercise in calibration
by John Hudson & Philip Jones - 283-308 Health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?
by Mathias Kifmann - 309-328 Symmetric two-stage contests with budget constraints
by William Stein & Amnon Rapoport - 329-352 Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation:
by Martin Bodenstein & Heinrich Ursprung - 353-364 The tragedy of the political commons: Evidence from U.S. Senate roll call votes on environmental legislation
by Anwar Hussain & David Laband - 365-382 Valence characteristics, costly policy and the median-crossing property: A diagrammatic exposition
by Donald Wittman - 383-390 The dual illusion of grants-in-aid on central and local expenditures: A reply
by Robert Logan & Yeung-Nan Shieh - 391-409 The credibility of monetary reform – New evidence
by Andreas Freytag - 411-422 Rents, dissipation and lost treasures: Rethinking Tullock's paradox
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Francesco Parisi - 423-436 Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy
by Anthony Heyes & Catherine Liston-Heyes - 437-451 Self-deception as the root of political failure
by Tyler Cowen - 453-480 Macroeconomic conditions and committee re-election rates
by Joseph McGarrity - 481-484 James T. Bennett, Tax-Funded Politics. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 204 pages. USD 29.95 (cloth)
by William Shughart - 485-487 Pascal Boyer,Explaining religion: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. New York: Basic Books, 2001
by Kenneth Greene
July 2005, Volume 124, Issue 1
- 1-18 Public choice in the new century
by William Shughart & Robert Tollison - 19-31 Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum
by James Buchanan - 33-56 Fragmenting parchment and the winds of war: The Constitution of the United States, 1860–2004
by Charles Rowley - 57-73 Constitutional political economy in the European Union
by Dennis Mueller - 75-93 Collective versus unilateral responses to terrorism
by Todd Sandler - 95-114 Government growth in the twenty-first century
by Randall Holcombe - 115-133 Nineteenth-century voting procedures in a twenty-first century world
by Michael Munger - 135-156 Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature
by Thomas Stratmann - 157-177 The eclipse of legislatures: Direct democracy in the 21st century
by John Matsusaka - 179-204 Corporations, collective action and corporate governance: One size does not fit all
by J. Mulherin - 205-222 The public choice of educational choice
by Lawrence Kenny - 223-236 Public choice and tort reform
by Paul Rubin - 237-247 The unfinished business of public choice
by William Shughart & Robert Tollison
June 2005, Volume 123, Issue 3
- 253-273 Democracy as an equilibrium
by Adam Przeworski - 275-319 What does the European Union do?
by Alberto Alesina & Ignazio Angeloni & Ludger Schuknecht - 321-347 Public sector efficiency: An international comparison
by António Afonso & Ludger Schuknecht & Vito Tanzi - 349-361 The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000
by John Lott - 363-392 Why chads? Determinants of voting equipment use in the United States
by Phillip Garner & Enrico Spolaore - 393-410 From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else
by Daowei Zhang & David Laband - 411-438 Soft money and hard choices: Why political parties might legislate against soft money donations
by David Gill & Christine Lipsmeyer - 439-462 Evidence on the importance of spatial voting models in presidential nominations and elections
by Lawrence Kenny & Babak Lotfinia - 463-476 The robustness of Kingma’s crowd-out estimate: Evidence from new data on contributions to public radio
by Sonia Manzoor & John Straub - 477-493 Pivotal power brokers: Theory and evidence on political fundraising
by Franklin Mixon & Chena Crocker & H. Black
April 2005, Volume 123, Issue 1
- 1-18 Thinking About the Political Impacts of the Electoral College
by Bernard Grofman & Scott Feld - 19-37 In Play: A Commentary on Strategies in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
by Jennifer Merolla & Michael Munger & Michael Tofias - 39-47 The Effect of Voting Technology on Voter Turnout: Do Computers Scare the Elderly?
by Gary Roseman & E. Stephenson - 49-58 Problems of Voting
by Gordon Tullock - 59-93 Production and Conflict Models Versus Rent-Seeking Models
by Kjell Hausken - 95-113 The Political Determinants of Federal Expenditure at the State Level
by Gary Hoover & Paul Pecorino - 115-131 Working Well with Others: The Evolution of Teamwork and Ethics
by Daniel Arce M. & L. Gunn - 133-146 Does Political Ideology Affect Economic Growth?
by Christian Bjørnskov - 147-169 Voters AS A Hard Budget Constraint: On the Determination of Intergovernmental Grants
by Lars Feld & Christoph Schaltegger - 171-196 Social Capital and Endogenous Preferences
by Anders Poulsen & Gert Svendsen - 197-216 The Citizen Candidate Model: An Experimental Analysis
by John Cadigan - 217-233 The Impact of Divided Government on Legislative Production
by James Rogers - 235-241 Samuel Kernell (Ed.), James Madison: The theory and practice of Republican government. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. ix + 381 pages. USD 65.00 (cloth)
by Alan Lockard - 243-248 Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. No. 15 in the American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, Steven E. Woodworth (Ed.), Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004. xxix + 124 pages. USD 65.00 (cloth); 19.95 (paper)
by William Shughart - 249-251 W. Mark Crain, Volatile states: Institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. xiv +166 pages. USD 49.50/GBP 31.00 (cloth)
by David Schap
March 2005, Volume 122, Issue 3
- 251-276 Lobbying and regulation in a political economy: Evidence from the U.S. cellular industry
by Tomaso Duso - 277-298 The role of intermediaries in corruption
by Güzin Bayar - 299-318 Keeping the other candidate guessing: Electoral competition when preferences are private information
by Adam Meirowitz - 319-331 Anyone for higher speed limits? – Self-interested and adaptive political preferences
by Olof Johansson-Stenman & Peter Martinsson - 333-354 Reputational capital, opportunism, and self-policing in legislatures
by Glenn Parker - 355-393 A logistic growth theory of public expenditures: A study of five countries over 100 years
by Massimo Florio & Sara Colautti - 395-416 Why does centralisation fail to internalise policy externalities?
by Robert Dur & Hein Roelfsema - 417-448 The European constitution project from the perspective of constitutional political economy
by Lars Feld - 449-465 Leviathans, federal transfers, and the cartelization hypothesis
by Marko Köthenbürger - 467-482 Elections with contribution-maximizing candidates
by Amihai Glazer & Mark Gradstein - 483-499 Supreme Court consensus and dissent: Estimating the role of the selection screen
by Brian Goff - 501-512 Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II, and Robert D. Tollison (Eds.), The economics of budget deficits. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 153, ed. by Mark Blaug. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA, U.S.A.: Edward Elgar, 2002. 2 vols.; 1, 112 pages. USD 370.00/GBP 245.00 (cloth)
by Daniel Mitchell
January 2005, Volume 122, Issue 1
- 1-8 Editorial Commentary - Gordon Tullock: The man and his scholarship
by Charles Rowley - 9-38 Representative versus direct democracy: The role of informational asymmetries
by Anke Kessler - 39-68 Testing the Mill hypothesis of fiscal illusion
by Rupert Sausgruber & Jean-Robert Tyran - 69-97 Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth?
by Pierre-Guillaume Méon & Khalid Sekkat - 99-114 Does free trade really reduce growth? Further testing using the economic freedom index
by Niclas Berggren & Henrik Jordahl - 115-132 Partisan stabilization policy and voter control
by David Kiefer - 133-157 Tax morale in Latin America
by Benno Torgler - 159-175 Can process conditionality enhance aid effectiveness?
by Carsten Hefeker & Katharina Michaelowa - 177-198 Suicide-bombing as inter-generational investment
by Jean-Paul Azam - 199-220 Radicalization as a reaction to failure: An economic model of Islamic extremism
by Mario Ferrero - 221-243 Party competition in a heterogeneous electorate: The role of dominant-issue voters
by Ivo Bischoff - 245-247 L.-A. Gerard-Varet, S.-C. Kolm, and J. Mercier Ythier (Eds.), The economics of reciprocity, giving and altruism. Houndmills and London: Palgrave Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. x + 387 pages. USD 79.95/GBP 65.50 (cloth)
by Hazem Ghobarah - 248-249 Steven J. Brams, Biblical games: Game theory and the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 220 pages. USD 50.00 (cloth); 17.95 (paper)
by Tyler Cowen
December 2004, Volume 121, Issue 3
- 263-277 A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings
by R. Rawls & David Laband
February 2004, Volume 121, Issue 3
- 279-308 Collusion, Collective Action and Protection: Theory and Evidence
by Richard Damania & Per Fredriksson & Thomas Osang - 309-333 Tax Britannica: Nineteenth Century Tariffs and British National Income
by Sami Dakhlia & John Nye - 335-361 Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration
by Alberto Chong & Luisa Zanforlin - 363-390 The Persistence of Corruption and Regulatory Compliance Failures: Theory and Evidence
by Richard Damania & Per Fredriksson & Muthukumara Mani - 391-412 Exclusive Committee Assignments and Party Pressure in the U.S. House of Representatives
by K. Kanthak - 413-430 Party Polarization and the Business Cycle in the United States
by Edward López & Carlos Ramírez - 431-453 The Advantages of Pure Forms of Parliamentary Democracy over Mixed Forms
by Charles Blankart & Dennis Mueller - 455-480 North-South Climate Change Negotiations: A Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information
by A. Caparrós & J.-C. Péreau & T. Tazdaït - 481-483 Explaining the Enhanced HIPC Initiative: A Response to Michaelowa (2003)
by Peter Hjertholm - 485-486 Why HIPC II Cannot be Explained on the Basis of Economic Theory – A Response to Peter Hjertholm
by Katharina Michaelowa - 487-506 A Neo-Downsian Model of the Alternative Vote as a Mechanism for Mitigating Ethnic Conflict in Plural Societies
by Jon Fraenkel & Bernard Grofman - 507-517 The alternative vote and interethnic moderation: A reply to Fraenkel and Grofman
by Donald Horowitz - 517-520 Geoffrey Brennan and Francis G. Castles (Eds.), Australia Reshaped
by Giuseppe Eusepi
October 2004, Volume 121, Issue 1
- 1-24 Coalition Governments Versus Minority Governments: Bargaining Power, Cohesion and Budgeting Outcomes
by Gerald Pech - 25-49 Monotonicity and its Cognates in the Theory of Choice
by Hannu Nurmi - 51-67 A Model of Political Competition in the Underlying Space of Ideology
by Claudio Bonilla - 69-82 Rewarding Policemen Increases Crime. Another Surprising Result from the Inspection Game
by Luciano Andreozzi - 83-98 Public School Music: Notes on the Public Provision of a Quasi-Private Good
by Laura Langbein - 99-130 A Stiglerian View on Banking Supervision
by Friedrich Heinemann & Martin Schüler - 131-155 Optimal Central Banker Contracts and Common Agency
by Georgios Chortareas & Stephen Miller - 157-177 Competition of Politicians for Incentive Contracts and Elections
by Hans Gersbach - 179-211 Abstention in Daylight: Strategic Calculus of Voting in the European Parliament
by Abdul Noury - 213-238 The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock
by Roger Congleton - 239-255 Social Norms and the Paradox of Elections’ Turnout
by João Amaro de Matos & Pedro Barros - 257-259 Gene Smiley, Rethinking the Great Depression
by Jim Couch - 260-262 George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
by Bryan Caplan
September 2004, Volume 120, Issue 3_4
- 241-246 A Snipe Hunt
by Robert D. Tollison - 247-266 Political Equilibrium and the Provision of Public Goods
by John C. Goodman & Philip K. Porter - 267-300 The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey
by Klarita Gërxhani - 301-329 Leviathan and Fiscal Illusion in Local Government Overlapping Jurisdictions
by Rebecca J. Campbell - 331-352 The Last 30 Years of Public Choice: An Analysis of Author and Institution Rankings
by Russell S. Sobel & Jennis J. Taylor - 353-357 Competition and Monopoly Power in Local Government: An Extension of Caplan (2001)
by Benjamin Powell - 359-377 Factors Underlying the Growth of Local Government in the 19th Century United States
by Randall G. Holcombe & Donald J. Lacombe - 379-400 Campaign-Finance Reform: A Public Choice Perspective
by Burton A. Abrams & Russell F. Settle - 401-437 National Competitive Advantage and the Roles of Economic and Political Freedom: Evidence from Hong Kong
by Edmund R. Thompson - 439-401 Does Policy Stability Increase the Constitutional Court's Independence? The Case of Italy During the First Republic (1956--1992)
by Michele Santoni & Francesco Zucchini - 463-465 Peter Bernholz, Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
by Brian Goff - 465-468 Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy, and Economic Growth
by Russell S. Sobel - 468-471 Arye L. Hillman, Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government
by Randall G. Holcombe - 472-476 Arye Hillman, Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government
by Kevin Siqueira
July 2004, Volume 120, Issue 1_2
- 1-27 Environmental Policy, Public Interest and Political Market
by Georges A. Tanguay & Paul Lanoie & Jérôme Moreau - 29-39 Is the Walsh Contract Really Optimal?
by Francisco Candel-Sánchez & Juan Cristóbal Campoy-Miñarroy - 41-61 Does Academic Publishing Pass the Real Market Test?
by Mark Thornton - 63-85 Party, Constituency, and Representation: Votes on Abortion in the British House of Commons
by John Baughman - 87-121 The Birth and Growth of the Social Insurance State: Explaining Old Age and Medical Insurance Across Countries
by David M. Cutler & Richard Johnson - 123-142 Policy Reform and the Free-Rider Problem
by John R. Conlon & Paul Pecorino - 143-167 Why not Africa? -- Growth and Welfare Effects of Secure Property Rights
by Ines Lindner & Holger Strulik - 169-189 Partisan Differences in Economic Outcomes and Corresponding Voting Behavior: Evidence from the U.S
by Sergiy Verstyuk - 191-204 The Displacement Effect in the Growth of Governments
by Gabriella Legrenzi - 205-220 Partisan Differences in Swedish Macroeconomic Policy
by Mattias Erlandsson - 221-224 Barry C. Burden (Ed.), Uncertainty in American Politics
by Joseph P. McGarrity - 225-228 Ernesto Garzón Valdés et al., The Future of Democracy: Essays of the Tampere Club
by Hartmut Kliemt - 228-233 John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan, Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy
by Sean Gailmard
June 2004, Volume 119, Issue 3_4
- 263-280 Nietzschean Development Failures
by Arye L. Hillman - 281-310 Public Employees as Swing Voters: Empirical Evidence on Opposition to Public Reform
by Jørn Rattsø & Rune J. Sørensen - 311-334 Strikes and Political Activism of Trade Unions: Theory and Application to Bangladesh
by Jean-Paul Azam & Claire Salmon - 335-358 Taxes, Budgetary Rule and Majority Voting
by Helmuth Cremer & Philippe De Donder & Firouz Gahvari - 359-380 Contests Among Bureaucrats
by Dieter Bös - 381-424 How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite and Cooperation in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
by Jordi Brandts & Tatsuyoshi Saijo & Arthur Schram - 425-443 Controlling Migration in an Open Labor Market
by Marcel Thum - 445-464 A Public Choice Perspective of IMF and World Bank Lending and Conditionality
by Axel Dreher - 465-467 Rick Farmer, John David Rausch, Jr. and John C. Green (Eds.), The Test of Time: Coping With Legislative Term Limits
by Aaron Steelman - 468-470 Hervé Moulin, Fair Division and Collective Welfare
by Alan D. Taylor - 470-473 Charles A. Kromkowski, Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700--1870
by Keith L. Dougherty - 473-476 Omar Azfar and Charles A. Cadwell (Eds.), Market-Augmenting Government: The Institutional Foundations for Prosperity; Stephen Knack (Ed.), Democracy, Governance, and Growth
by Randall G. Holcombe
April 2004, Volume 119, Issue 1_2
- 1-12 Conservatism and Economics: A Sweet Turkish Delight
by Charles K. Rowley - 13-30 Blood, Baath and Beyond: the Constitutional Dilemma of Iraq
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 31-59 Are Voters Better Informed When They Have a Larger Say in Politics? -- Evidence for the European Union and Switzerland
by Matthias Benz & Alois Stutzer - 61-72 The Evolution and Convergence of the Government Expenditure Composition in the OECD Countries
by Ismael Sanz & Francisco J. Vel·zquez - 73-90 Effects of Term Limits on Fiscal Performance: Evidence from Democratic Nations
by Joseph M. Johnson & W. Mark Crain - 91-117 Modeling Other-Regarding Preferences and an Experimental Test
by Norman Frohlich & Joe Oppenheimer & Anja Kurki - 119-142 Multidimensional Welfare Aggregation
by Christian List - 143-159 Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's `Charity of the Uncharitable'
by Russell S. Sobel & Gary A. Wagner - 161-178 Sent Seeking With Private Values
by David A. Malueg & Andrew J. Yates - 179-217 The Public Acceptance of Green Taxes: 2 Million Voters Express Their Opinion
by Philippe Thalmann - 219-240 Small States, Large Unitary States and Federations
by Matthias Wrede - 241-254 School Choice: Money, Race, and Congressional Voting on Vouchers
by Omer Gokcekus & Joshua J. Phillips & Edward Tower - 255-258 Randall G. Holcombe, From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government
by Jac C. Heckelman - 258-261 Attiat F. Ott, The Public Sector in the Global Economy: From the Driver's Seat to the Back Seat
by Anton D. Lowenberg
March 2004, Volume 118, Issue 3_4
- 223-234 George W. Bush and the Return to Deficit Finance
by William F. Shughart II - 235-249 Economists and Fiscal Policy Advice: A Deficit or a Deficiency?
by Michael C. Munger - 251-270 Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands
by Thomas Stratmann & Jared Garner - 271-288 Economic Freedom and Taxation: Is There a Trade-off in the Locational Competition Between Countries?
by Peter Egger & Hannes Winner - 289-323 Tinpots, Totalitarians (and Democrats): An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Economic Growth on Civil Liberties and Political Rights
by Muhammed N. Islam & Stanley L. Winer - 325-340 Crime, Confiscation, and Frowth: For and Against Leviathan
by Russell D. Murphy, Jr. - 341-364 The Determinants of Vote Intentions in Portugal
by Francisco JosÈ Veiga & Linda GonÁalves Veiga - 365-388 Political Fragmentation and Fiscal Outcomes
by Roberto Ricciuti - 389-412 Comparing Electoral Systems: A Geometric Analysis
by Anouk RiviËre - 413-435 Group Formation and Political Conflict: Instrumental and Expressive Approaches
by Alan Hamlin & Colin Jennings - 437-449 Majority Support for Progressive Income Taxation with Corner Preferences
by Philippe De Donder & Jean Hindriks - 451-468 An Alternative Constitutional Treaty for the European Union
by Peter Bernholz & Friedrich Schneider & Roland Vaubel & Frank Vibert - 469-473 Dennis C. Mueller, Public Choice III
by William F. Shughart II - 473-477 Philipp Maier, Political Pressure, Rhetoric and Monetary Policy: Lessons for the European Central Bank
by Michelle R. Garfinkel
January 2004, Volume 118, Issue 1_2
- 1-1 Editorial
by Charles K. Rowley & Robert D. Tollison - 1-10 A Road Map to Middle Eastern peace? -- A Public Choice Perspective
by Tyler Cowen - 11-24 Misplaced Applications of Economic Theory to the Middle East
by Steven Plaut - 25-27 Response to Steven Plaut
by Tyler Cowen - 29-30 The Final Word
by Steven Plaut - 31-51 Reflections on Public Choice
by Bernard Grofman