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October 2016, Volume 169, Issue 1
- 137-159 Conflict, democracy and voter choice: a public choice analysis of the Athenian ostracism
by George Tridimas
September 2016, Volume 168, Issue 3
- 153-175 A positive theory of the predatory state
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 177-216 Opportunistic politicians and fiscal outcomes: the curious case of Vorarlberg
by Monika Köppl-Turyna - 217-238 Seniority, political experience, and support for government spending in the US House: a culture of spending?
by James C. Garand & Rebekah Myers & Renee Renegar - 239-263 NIH biomedical funding: evidence of executive dominance in swing-voter states during presidential elections
by Alberto Batinti - 265-277 Plurality, approval, or Borda? A nineteenth century dispute on voting rules
by Eerik Lagerspetz - 279-311 Fiscal redistribution around elections when democracy is not “the only game in town”
by Pantelis Kammas & Vassilis Sarantides - 313-341 Seeing the forest through the trees: a meta-analysis of political budget cycles
by Andrew Q. Philips
July 2016, Volume 168, Issue 1
- 1-22 Fiscal forecasts and political systems: a legislative budgeting perspective
by Luisa Giuriato & Alessandra Cepparulo & Matteo Barberi - 23-42 Term limits, time horizons and electoral accountability
by J. Sebastian Leguizamon & George R. Crowley - 43-54 Evaluation of an informal rule for the allocation of sports capital funding
by John Considine & Justin Doran - 55-74 Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010
by Danko Tarabar & Joshua C. Hall - 75-102 What does it take for a roving bandit settle down? Theory and an illustrative history of the Visigoths
by Andrew T. Young - 103-114 Olson’s exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy: a reconsideration
by Wolfgang Buchholz & Todd Sandler - 115-135 Two types of participation failure under nine voting methods in variable electorates
by Dan S. Felsenthal & Hannu Nurmi - 137-152 Individual welfare and the group size paradox
by Paul Pecorino
June 2016, Volume 167, Issue 3
- 177-199 Taking versus taxing: an analysis of conscription in a private information economy
by Thomas Koch & Javier Birchenall - 201-219 Would you trust lobbies?
by Pierre Fauvet & Sébastien Rouillon - 221-243 An offer you can’t refuse: murdering journalists as an enforcement mechanism of corrupt deals
by Christian Bjørnskov & Andreas Freytag - 245-255 A note on majority rule and neutrality with an application to state votes at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
by Jac C. Heckelman - 257-276 Ballot order effects in direct democracy elections
by John G. Matsusaka - 277-289 Fiscal policymaking and the central bank institutional constraint Una Vez Más: New Latin American evidence
by Richard C. K. Burdekin & Leroy O. Laney - 291-293 Richard E. Wagner, Politics as a peculiar business insights from a theory of entangled political economy
by Alexander William Salter - 295-298 David Colander and Roland Kupers, Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up
by Abigail N. Devereaux
April 2016, Volume 167, Issue 1
- 1-20 Academic exclusion: some experiences
by Arye L. Hillman & Heinrich W. Ursprung - 21-35 Closed primaries versus top-two primaries
by Pablo Amorós & M. Socorro Puy & Ricardo Martínez - 37-45 Higher costs appeal to voters: implications of expressive voting
by J. R. Clark & Dwight R. Lee - 47-65 Do direct-democratic procedures lead to higher acceptance than political representation?
by Emanuel V. Towfigh & Sebastian J. Goerg & Andreas Glöckner & Philip Leifeld & Aniol Llorente-Saguer & Sophie Bade & Carlos Kurschilgen - 67-94 Competition in fragmentation among political coalitions: theory and evidence
by Benoît Le Maux & Yvon Rocaboy - 95-129 The politicization of UNESCO World Heritage decision making
by Enrico Bertacchini & Claudia Liuzza & Lynn Meskell & Donatella Saccone - 131-143 Bargaining complexity and the duration of government formation: evidence from Flemish municipalities
by Tom Blockmans & Benny Geys & Bruno Heyndels & Bram Mahieu - 145-171 Presidential unilateral action: partisan influence and presidential power
by Fang-Yi Chiou & Lawrence S. Rothenberg - 173-176 George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by Alexander C. Cartwright
March 2016, Volume 166, Issue 3
- 335-354 Blair disease? Business careers of the former democratic heads of state and government
by Alexander Baturo & Slava Mikhaylov - 355-378 Intra-party diversity and ministerial selection in coalition governments
by Hanna Bäck & Marc Debus & Wolfgang C. Müller
January 2016, Volume 166, Issue 1
- 3-28 Suicide attacks and religious cleavages
by Andra Filote & Niklas Potrafke & Heinrich Ursprung - 29-52 Antitrust exemptions for joint R&D improve patents
by Samuli Leppälä - 53-68 Tax limits and local elections
by Federico Revelli - 69-86 Capture and the bureaucratic mafia: does the revolving door erode bureaucratic integrity?
by Sounman Hong & Jeehun Lim - 87-111 Asserting presidential preferences in a regulatory review bureaucracy
by Dima Yazji Shamoun & Bruce Yandle - 113-142 Political leader survival: does competence matter?
by Shu Yu & Richard Jong-A-Pin - 143-160 Does forced voting result in political polarization?
by Fernanda Leite Lopez Leon & Renata Rizzi - 161-182 The perils of government enforcement
by Rustam Romaniuc & Katherine Farrow & Lisette Ibanez & Alain Marciano - 183-204 The volatility of median and supermajoritarian pivots in the U.S. Congress and the effects of party polarization
by Thomas L. Brunell & Bernard Grofman & Samuel Merrill - 205-233 Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods
by Federica Alberti & Edward J. Cartwright - 235-259 Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus
by Eric Dubois
December 2015, Volume 165, Issue 3
- 171-191 A tragedy of the anticommons: local option taxation and cell phone tax bills
by Matthew Mitchell & Thomas Stratmann - 193-210 The paradox of grading systems
by Steven Brams & Richard Potthoff - 211-238 Costly distribution and the non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas
by James Lake & Maia Linask - 239-261 Does electoral competition affect politicians’ trade policy preferences? Evidence from Japan
by Banri Ito - 263-284 Representation, neighboring districts, and party loyalty in the U.S. Congress
by Justin Kirkland & R. Williams - 285-306 A dynamic Duverger’s law
by Jean Forand & Vikram Maheshri - 307-309 Nina M. Moore: The political roots of racial thinking in American criminal justice
by Daniel D’Amico - 311-314 James Raymond Vreeland and Axel Dreher (eds.): The political economy of the United Nations Security Council: money and influence
by Jared Pincin - 315-317 Edward Peter Stringham: Private governance: creating order in economic and social life
by Michael Munger
October 2015, Volume 165, Issue 1
- 1-12 Condorcet polling can yield serendipitous clues about voter views
by Richard Potthoff & Michael Munger - 13-23 The paradox of information and voter turnout
by Joseph McMurray - 25-43 The Jeffords switch and legislator rolls in the U.S. Senate
by Chris Den Hartog & Nathan Monroe - 45-58 The monetary mechanism of stateless Somalia
by William Luther - 59-77 Corruption and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazilian municipalities
by Jamie Bologna & Amanda Ross - 79-96 Sovereignty as exchange of political property rights
by Alexander Salter - 97-102 A note on Poisson contests
by Nava Kahana & Doron Klunover - 103-122 Influence versus utility in the evaluation of voting rules: a new look at the Penrose formula
by Michel Breton & Karine Straeten - 123-145 Construction corrupts: empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries
by Andreas Kyriacou & Leonel Muinelo-Gallo & Oriol Roca-Sagalés - 147-164 The political economy of the Essential Air Service program
by Joshua Hall & Amanda Ross & Christopher Yencha - 165-167 Peter J. Boettke & Christopher J. Coyne (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Austrian economics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiii + 813 pp., USD 150.00 (cloth)
by Alexander Salter - 169-170 Michael C. Munger and Kevin M. Munger, Choosing in groups: analytical politics revisited
by Roger Congleton
September 2015, Volume 164, Issue 3
- 191-193 Guest editor’s introduction to the symposium on the 50th anniversary of Olson’s Logic of Collective Action
by Jac Heckelman - 195-216 Collective action: fifty years later
by Todd Sandler - 217-234 The Logic of Collective Action and beyond
by Roger Congleton - 235-250 Olson and imperceptible differences: the Tuck critique
by Geoffrey Brennan - 251-274 Supermajority rule and the law of 1/n
by Dongwon Lee - 275-285 The beast is not easily starved
by Dwight Lee - 287-307 Political biases despite external expert participation? An empirical analysis of tax revenue forecasts in Germany
by Thiess Buettner & Bjoern Kauder - 309-329 Strategic behavior by federal agencies in the allocation of public resources
by Stuart Kasdin & Luona Lin - 331-356 Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
by Nathan Jensen & Edmund Malesky & Matthew Walsh - 357-378 From Caesar to Tacitus: changes in early Germanic governance circa 50 BC-50 AD
by Andrew Young - 379-399 Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model
by Jan Brueckner & Kangoh Lee - 401-421 Virtual world order: the economics and organizations of virtual pirates
by Carl Mildenberger - 423-442 Citizens’ preferences about voting rules: self-interest, ideology, and sincerity
by André Blais & Jean-François Laslier & François Poinas & Karine Straeten - 443-445 George J. Borjas: Immigration economics
by Zachary Gochenour - 447-449 Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London & the Limits of Eminent Domain
by Thomas Miceli
July 2015, Volume 164, Issue 1
- 1-42 The anatomy of government failure
by William Keech & Michael Munger - 43-44 Erratum to: The anatomy of government failure
by William Keech & Michael Munger - 45-56 The empty intersection: why so little public choice in political science?
by Randy Simmons & Ryan Yonk - 57-73 Al Qaeda at the bar: coordinating ideologues and mercenaries in terrorist organizations
by Kjell Hausken & Sheheryar Banuri & Dipak Gupta & Klaus Abbink - 75-85 Regulation and corruption
by Randall Holcombe & Christopher Boudreaux - 87-101 Risk lovers and the rent over-investment puzzle
by Paan Jindapon & Christopher Whaley - 103-116 From mixed economy to entangled political economy: a Paretian social-theoretic orientation
by Meg Patrick & Richard Wagner - 117-133 Keeping the party together
by Hande Mutlu-Eren - 135-155 Sabotage in contests: a survey
by Subhasish Chowdhury & Oliver Gürtler - 157-175 Political fractionalization and delay in fiscal stabilizations: a duration analysis
by Kevin Grier & Shu Lin & Haichun Ye - 177-179 Jonathan D. Caverley: Democratic militarism: voting, wealth, and war
by Abigail Hall - 181-183 David Reisman: James Buchanan
by Randall Holcombe - 185-188 Richard H. Thaler: Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics
by Alex Cartwright - 189-189 Erratum to: Euvoluntariness and just market exchange: moral dilemmas from Locke’s Venditio
by Ricardo Guzmán & Michael Munger
June 2015, Volume 163, Issue 3
- 223-224 In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015)
by Michael Maloney & Robert Tollison - 225-246 The social contract in the laboratory. An experimental analysis of self-enforcing impartial agreements
by Marco Faillo & Stefania Ottone & Lorenzo Sacconi - 247-266 The UN Goldstone Report and retraction: an empirical investigation
by Arye Hillman & Niklas Potrafke - 267-287 The political economics of redistribution, inequality and tax avoidance
by Carlos Bethencourt & Lars Kunze - 289-305 Primaries: the unifying force
by Rafael Hortala-Vallve & Hannes Mueller - 307-320 Partial fiscal decentralization and sub-national government fiscal discipline: empirical evidence from OECD countries
by Zareh Asatryan & Lars Feld & Benny Geys - 321-335 Does immigration impact institutions?
by J. Clark & Robert Lawson & Alex Nowrasteh & Benjamin Powell & Ryan Murphy - 337-354 On the relationship between corruption and migration: empirical evidence from a gravity model of migration
by Marie Poprawe - 355-377 Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?
by Hans Pitlik & Ludek Kouba - 379-387 Public choice, social choice, and political economy
by Dennis Mueller - 389-391 Armin Steinbach: Economic policy coordination in the Euro-area
by Sebastian Dullien - 393-396 Michael J. Glennon: National Security and Double Government
by Christopher Coyne - 397-399 Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye (eds.), Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
by Douglas Allen - 401-403 Adam Smith and Bruce Yandle: Bootleggers and Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
by Diana Thomas - 405-408 William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by Claudia Williamson - 409-412 Jacob T. Levy: Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
by Mark Koyama
April 2015, Volume 163, Issue 1
- 1-5 Introduction to the Public Choice Society at 50 years symposium
by Edward Lopez - 7-13 Buchanan’s anti-conservatism
by Geoffrey Brennan - 15-29 Virginia political economy: a rational reconstruction
by Richard Wagner - 31-52 The value of formalism: re-examining external costs and decision costs with multiple groups
by Keith Dougherty & Julian Edward & Robi Ragan - 53-65 The past, present and future of Virginia Political Economy
by Peter Boettke & Alain Marciano - 67-83 Vincent Ostrom’s revolutionary science of association
by Michael Fotos - 85-93 The Bloomington Workshop: multiple methods, interdisciplinary research, and collective action
by James Walker - 95-109 Governing their commons: Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Bloomington School
by Roberta Herzberg - 111-127 Public Administration, Public Choice and the Ostroms: the achievements, the failure, the promise
by Paul Aligica - 129-151 Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
by Eli Dourado & Alex Tabarrok - 153-165 The strange history of social choice, and the contribution of the Public Choice Society to its fifth revival
by Iain McLean - 167-186 Constitutional law in social choice perspective
by Maxwell Stearns - 187-199 House money effects on trust and reciprocity
by Daniel Houser & Erte Xiao - 201-222 Further towards a theory of the emergence of property
by Bart Wilson
March 2015, Volume 162, Issue 3
- 225-227 In remembrance of Gordon Tullock
by J. Clark & Dwight Lee - 229-233 Thanks to Gordon Tullock
by Roger Congleton - 235-238 Remembering Gordon Tullock
by T. Nicolaus Tideman - 239-241 Gordon Tullock: gone but surely not forgotten
by Bruce Yandle - 243-262 Olson’s Logic of Collective Action at fifty
by Paul Pecorino - 263-285 How do elections affect international cooperation? Evidence from environmental treaty participation
by Antoine Cazals & Alexandre Sauquet - 287-305 Anarchy, self-governance, and legal titling
by Ilia Murtazashvili & Jennifer Murtazashvili - 307-328 Legitimacy and the cost of government
by Niclas Berggren & Christian Bjørnskov & David Lipka - 329-350 Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
by Konstantinos Matakos & Dimitrios Xefteris - 351-380 The rule of law and constitutionalism in Muslim countries
by Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt - 381-404 Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies
by Michael Dorsch & Karl Dunz & Paul Maarek - 405-423 Social interactions in voting behavior: distinguishing between strategic voting and the bandwagon effect
by Haldun Evrenk & Chien-Yuan Sher - 425-445 Global economic crisis and corruption
by Artjoms Ivlevs & Timothy Hinks - 447-449 Erratum to: Global economic crisis and corruption
by Artjoms Ivlevs & Timothy Hinks - 451-452 Massimo Florio, Applied welfare economics: cost–benefit analysis of projects and policies
by David Hollanders - 453-454 William R. Keech, Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy
by Michael Munger - 455-457 John Dunn: Breaking Democracy’s Spell
by Michael Munger - 459-462 Paul Dragos Aligica: Institutional diversity and political economy: the Ostroms and beyond
by Karol Sołtan - 463-465 Benjamin Powell, Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy
by Christopher Coyne - 467-469 David Emanuel Andersson and Stefano Moroni (eds): Cities and private planning: property rights, entrepreneurship, and transaction costs
by Alexander Salter
January 2015, Volume 162, Issue 1
- 1-24 Does remuneration affect the discipline and the selection of politicians? Evidence from pay harmonization in the European Parliament
by Thomas Braendle - 25-42 Is there a local knowledge advantage in federations? Evidence from a natural experiment
by André Schultz & Alexander Libman - 43-56 Signature requirements and citizen initiatives: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
by Felix Arnold & Ronny Freier - 57-78 Tax structure and corruption: cross-country evidence
by Yongzheng Liu & Haibo Feng - 79-96 Explaining party ideological stances
by Luigi Curini - 97-117 The occupations of regulators influence occupational regulation: evidence from the US private security industry
by Brian Meehan & Bruce Benson - 119-133 Voting and the economic cycle
by John Maloney & Andrew Pickering - 135-157 Voluntary public health insurance
by Catarina Goulão - 159-182 Ruling elites’ rotation and asset ownership: implications for property rights
by Leonid Polishchuk & Georgiy Syunyaev - 183-199 Mobilization, cost of voting and turnout: a natural randomized experiment with double elections
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar & Abel François - 201-203 Denise Minger, Death by food pyramid: how shoddy science, sketchy politics and shady special interests have ruined our health
by Adam Hoffer - 205-209 Tim Groseclose, Cheating: an insider’s report on the use of race in admissions at UCLA
by D. Roderick Kiewiet - 211-213 Peter H. Schuck: Why government fails so often: and how it can do better
by Matt Ryan - 215-217 David Skarbek: The social order of the underworld: how prison gangs govern the American penal system
by Graham Denyer Willis - 219-221 Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy unbound: why self-governance works better than you think
by Stergios Skaperdas
December 2014, Volume 161, Issue 3
- 269-288 It’s not me, it’s you: the functioning of Wall Street during the 2008 economic downturn
by Edward Stringham - 289-303 A hidden cost of war: the impact of mobilizing reserve troops on emergency response times
by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall & Patrick McLaughlin & Ann Zerkle - 305-320 Presidential priorities, congressional control, and the quality of regulatory analysis: an application to healthcare and homeland security
by Jerry Ellig & Christopher Conover - 321-344 Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis
by Vincenzo Bove & Roberto Nisticò - 345-366 On the efficiency of equilibria in a legislative bargaining model with particularistic and collective goods
by Daniel Cardona & Antoni Rubí-Barceló - 367-383 The causes of legal rents extraction: evidence from Spanish municipalities
by Bernardino Benito & Francisco Bastida & Ana-María Ríos & Cristina Vicente - 385-405 Impact of natural disaster on public sector corruption
by Eiji Yamamura - 407-426 Three-party competition in parliamentary democracy with proportional representation
by Seok-ju Cho - 427-450 Political competition, party polarization, and government performance
by Rune Sørensen - 451-470 Do jurisdictions compete on taxes? A meta-regression analysis
by Joan Costa-Font & Filipe De-Albuquerque & Hristos Doucouliagos - 471-497 Explaining variation in the competitiveness of U.S. Senate elections, 1922–2004
by Stanley Winer & Lawrence Kenny & Bernard Grofman - 499-515 Good news and bad news: evidence of media bias in unemployment reports
by Marcel Garz - 517-536 Assessing strategic voting in the 2008 US presidential primaries: the role of electoral context, institutional rules, and negative votes
by D. Hillygus & Sarah Treul - 537-539 Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community
by David Skarbek - 541-546 Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar companion to public choice, second edition
by Edward Lopez - 547-549 Filippo Sabetti and Paul Dragos Aligica (eds.), Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance
by Liya Palagashvili
October 2014, Volume 161, Issue 1
- 1-9 Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections
by Joseph Ornstein & Robert Norman - 11-29 Distribution of transfers and soft budget spending behaviors: evidence from Italian regions
by Fabio Padovano - 31-49 Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
by Hans Gersbach - 51-72 Do barriers to candidacy reduce political competition? Evidence from a bachelor’s degree requirement for legislators in Pakistan
by Madiha Afzal - 73-90 All-pay-all aspects of political decision making
by Thomas Giebe & Paul Schweinzer - 91-112 Constitutional verbosity and social trust
by Christian Bjørnskov & Stefan Voigt - 113-118 Buchanan and Tullock ignore their own contributions to expressive voting
by Dwight Lee & J. Clark - 119-139 Global corruption and the shadow economy: spatial aspects
by Rajeev Goel & James Saunoris - 141-156 The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials
by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay & Bryan McCannon - 157-181 The impact of consumer advocates on regulatory policy in the electric utility sector
by Adam Fremeth & Guy Holburn & Pablo Spiller - 183-207 Do the personal characteristics of finance ministers affect changes in public debt?
by Marc-Daniel Moessinger - 209-232 The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments
by Tjaša Bjedov & Simon Lapointe & Thierry Madiès - 233-255 Voter information and electoral outcomes: the Norwegian list of shame
by Arnt Hopland - 257-259 T. Randolph Beard, David L. Kaserman, and Rigmar Osterkamp, The global organ shortage: economic causes, human consequences, policy responses
by Peter Zweifel - 261-264 Ilya Somin, Democracy and political ignorance: why smaller government is smarter
by Stephen Miller - 265-267 Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the military-industrial complex in the United States and Great Britain
by Abigail Hall
September 2014, Volume 160, Issue 3
- 295-312 Packed primaries and empty caucuses: voter turnout in presidential nominations
by Caitlin Jewitt - 313-326 Weak Condorcet winner(s) revisited
by Dan Felsenthal & Nicolaus Tideman - 327-344 Identifying the bandwagon effect in two-round elections
by Áron Kiss & Gábor Simonovits - 345-366 Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of the initiative process
by John Matsusaka - 367-389 Do constitutions matter? Evidence from a natural experiment at the municipality level
by Florian Ade