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September 2014, Volume 160, Issue 3
- 391-409 Immigration, redistribution, and universal suffrage
by Raul Magni-Berton - 411-428 Reciprocity and resistance to comprehensive reform
by Urs Fischbacher & Simeon Schudy - 429-453 Forecast dispersion, dissenting votes, and monetary policy preferences of FOMC members: the role of individual career characteristics and political aspects
by Stefan Eichler & Tom Lähner - 455-466 The use of eminent domain in land assembly: The case of the Tennessee Valley Authority
by Carl Kitchens - 467-479 The impact of closeness on electoral participation exploiting the Italian double ballot system
by Maria Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa - 481-499 Kidnap insurance and its impact on kidnapping outcomes
by Alexander Fink & Mark Pingle - 501-519 Ministerial gatekeeping and parliamentary involvement in the implementation process of EU directives
by Thomas König & Bernd Luig - 521-538 Political interaction in the senate: estimating a political “spatial” weights matrix and an application to lobbying behavior
by B. Chupp - 539-549 Transaction costs can encourage Coasean bargaining
by Alex Robson - 551-557 Thomas Piketty: Capital in the twenty-first century
by Randall Holcombe - 559-562 Brett M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: the social value of shared resources
by Alain Marciano - 563-565 Wolfgang Kasper, Manfred E. Streit and Peter J. Boettke: Institutional economics: property, competition, and policies, 2nd ed
by G. Manish - 567-569 Edmund Phelps: Mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change
by Rosolino Candela
July 2014, Volume 160, Issue 1
- 1-6 Tom Borcherding
by Matt Lindsay & Robert Deacon & Darren Filson - 7-24 Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections: does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter?
by James Adams & Samuel Merrill - 25-44 An empirical analysis of alternative ways that terrorist groups end
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Todd Sandler - 45-63 Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
by Brenton Peterson & Sonal Pandya & David Leblang - 65-108 Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased?
by John Lott & Kevin Hassett - 109-130 Voting Islamist or voting secular? An empirical analysis of voting outcomes in Egypt’s “Arab Spring”
by May Elsayyad & Shima’a Hanafy - 131-153 Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law
by Michael Makowsky & Thomas Stratmann - 155-180 The Chicago Fire of 1871: a bottom-up approach to disaster relief
by Emily Skarbek - 181-203 State involvement in limiting textbook choice by school districts
by Michelle Phillips - 205-225 Why do parties use primaries?: Political selection versus candidate incentives
by Fernando Aragón - 227-249 Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia
by Jean-Paul Faguet & Fabio Sánchez - 251-273 What’s a losing party to do? The calculus of contesting state legislative elections
by Thomas Carsey & William Berry - 275-277 Wilfred Dolfsma: Government failure: society, markets, and rules
by Peter Calcagno - 279-281 Joshua Page: The toughest beat: politics, punishment, and the prison officers union in California
by Kaitlyn Harger - 283-286 Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, deliberating American monetary policy: a textual analysis
by Alexander Salter - 287-290 David Levi-Faur (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Governance
by Paul Aligica - 291-291 Erratum to: Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
by Mogens Justesen & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 293-293 Erratum to: Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860
by Jeffrey Grynaviski & Michael Munger
June 2014, Volume 159, Issue 3
- 321-326 The costs of collectivization, per se
by James Buchanan & Yong Yoon - 327-339 Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
by Eerik Lagerspetz - 341-361 Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860
by Jeffrey Grynaviski & Michael Munger - 363-383 Loyalty for sale? Military spending and coups d’etat
by Gabriel Leon - 385-414 Religious decline in the 20th century West: testing alternative explanations
by Raphaël Franck & Laurence Iannaccone - 415-433 Parties and institutions: empirical evidence on veto players and the growth of government
by Casper Hunnerup Dahl - 435-455 Political institutions and income (re-)distribution: evidence from developed economies
by Lars Feld & Jan Schnellenbach - 457-467 Popularity, polarization, and political budget cycles
by Marek Hanusch & Daniel Magleby - 469-483 (De)Centralization and voter turnout: theory and evidence from German municipalities
by Claus Michelsen & Peter Boenisch & Benny Geys - 485-501 The limits of tax and expenditure limits: TEL implementation as a principal-agent problem
by Ellen Seljan - 503-514 Form vs. substance in selection through competition: elections, markets, and political economy
by Richard Wagner & Deema Yazigi - 515-531 Third-party threat and the dimensionality of major-party roll call voting
by Daniel Lee - 533-559 Electoral misgovernance cycles: evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece
by Spyros Skouras & Nicos Christodoulakis - 561-576 Imperfect information and the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis
by Christian Bredemeier - 577-579 Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner: The Behavior of Federal Judges
by Alison Newman - 581-583 Gary Chartier, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and politics for a stateless society
by Edward Stringham - 585-587 Francesco Parisi (ed.), Production of Legal Rules, volume 7: Encyclopedia of law and economics (2nd ed.)
by J. Robert Subrick - 589-593 Zoltan J. Acs: Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being
by Lenore Ealy - 595-597 Dinissa Duvanova: Building business in post-communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: collective goods, selective incentives, and predatory states
by Dalibor Roháč
April 2014, Volume 159, Issue 1
- 3-21 Common pool size and project size: an empirical test on expenditures using Danish municipal mergers
by Sune Welling Hansen - 23-26 A correction to Potters and van Winden (1992)
by Jason Weinreb & Joan Ricart-Huguet - 27-52 On revolt and endogenous economic policy in autocratic regimes
by Joel Guttman & Rafael Reuveny - 53-62 Participation quorums in costly meetings
by Sabine Flamand & Orestis Troumpounis - 63-82 How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy
by Matthias Dahm & Robert Dur & Amihai Glazer - 83-98 Implementing the Borda outcome via truncated scoring rules: a computational study
by Onur Doğan & Ayça Giritligil - 99-104 Returns to effort in rent-seeking games
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Francesco Parisi - 105-120 The welfare state, migration, and voting rights
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar - 121-139 On the political and fiscal determinants of income redistribution under federalism and democracy: evidence from Germany
by Helmut Herwartz & Bernd Theilen - 141-158 Exploring the nature of inter-country interactions in the process of ratifying international environmental agreements: the case of the Kyoto Protocol
by Alexandre Sauquet - 159-176 Voters, dictators, and peons: expressive voting and pivotality
by Emir Kamenica & Louisa Egan Brad - 177-196 Can democracy induce development? A constitutional perspective
by Hans Gersbach & Lars-H. Siemers - 197-218 Location, location, location: the Davis-Hinich model of electoral competition
by John Jackson - 219-234 Competence and ambiguity in electoral competition
by Sivan Frenkel - 235-249 A preferential attachment model of campaign contributions in state legislative elections
by Greg Vonnahme - 251-275 Legislative budget cycles
by Cameron Shelton - 277-298 The law & economics of private prosecutions in industrial revolution England
by Mark Koyama - 299-299 Erratum to: Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergence of the modern world
by Karen Clay - 301-303 Richard E. Wagner: Deficits, debt, and democracy: wrestling with tragedy on the fiscal commons
by Adam Martin - 305-307 Jeff D. Makholm: The political economy of pipelines: a century of comparative institutional development
by Robert Bradley - 309-311 John Tomasi: Free market fairness
by John Thrasher - 313-315 Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López: Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers: the economic engine of political change
by Michael Thomas - 317-320 Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty
by Atin Basuchoudhary
March 2014, Volume 158, Issue 3
- 297-310 Empirical social choice: an introduction
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 311-330 On the empirical relevance of Condorcet’s paradox
by Adrian Deemen - 331-357 Which voting rule is most likely to choose the “best” candidate?
by T. Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 359-382 An experimental study of the efficiency of unanimity rule and majority rule
by Keith Dougherty & Brian Pitts & Justin Moeller & Robi Ragan - 383-397 Cycles and instability in politics. Evidence from the 2009 Danish municipal elections
by Malthe Munkøe - 399-425 The Alternative Vote and Coombs Rule versus First-Past-the-Post: a social choice analysis of simulated data based on English elections, 1992–2010
by Nicholas Miller - 427-463 The variable choice set logit model applied to the 2004 Canadian election
by Maria Gallego & Norman Schofield & Kevin McAlister & Jee Jeon - 465-482 Modeling the effects of changing issue salience in two-party competition
by Scott Feld & Samuel Merrill & Bernard Grofman - 483-497 Picking a loser? A social choice perspective on the Danish government formation of 1975
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 499-511 Insincere voting under the successive procedure
by Bjørn Rasch - 513-523 A Danish killer amendment—when judicial review was banned from the 1849 Constitution
by Mogens Pedersen - 525-539 Coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969–2009
by Steven Brams & Gustavo Camilo & Alexandra Franz - 541-558 Sophisticated and myopic? Citizen preferences for Electoral College reform
by John Aldrich & Jason Reifler & Michael Munger - 559-576 Equilibrium institutions: the federal-proportional trade-off
by Josep Colomer - 577-588 Institutions, information, and faction: an experimental test of Riker’s federalism thesis for political parties
by John Aldrich & Michael Munger & Jason Reifler - 589-589 Erratum to: The Alternative Vote and Coombs Rule Versus First-Past-The-Post: A Social Choice Analysis of Simulated Data Based on English Elections, 1992–2010
by Nicholas Miller
January 2014, Volume 158, Issue 1
- 1-2 Betty Tillman
by Donald Boudreaux - 3-4 Betty Tillman: a remembrance
by Dwight Lee - 5-6 A tribute to Betty Tillman
by Richard McKenzie - 7-8 Remembering Betty Tillman
by Karen Vaughn - 9-10 Betty Tillman, a remembrance of times long ago
by Richard Wagner - 11-19 Property and markets in Elmer Kelton novels
by Randy Simmons - 21-38 The political economy of unfunded public pension liabilities
by Dashle Kelley - 39-49 Euvoluntariness and just market exchange: moral dilemmas from Locke’s Venditio
by Ricardo Guzmán & Michael Munger - 51-83 The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
by Axel Dreher & Matthew Gould & Matthew Rablen & James Vreeland - 85-100 Exchange, unanimity and consent: a defence of the public choice account of power
by John Meadowcroft - 101-120 Mixed equilibriums in a three-candidate spatial model with candidate valence
by Dimitrios Xefteris - 121-141 The devil is in the shadow. Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
by Axel Dreher & Pierre-Guillaume Méon & Friedrich Schneider - 143-165 The role of political partisanship during economic crises
by Vincenzo Galasso - 167-187 Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes?
by Russell Sobel & George Crowley - 189-207 Can corruption foster regulatory compliance?
by Fabio Méndez - 209-220 Why do crises go to waste? Fiscal austerity and public service reform
by David Hugh-Jones - 221-242 Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages
by Li Han - 243-251 Taking dictatorship seriously: a reply to Quesada
by Greg Fried - 253-259 Taking alleged dictatorship more seriously: Rejoinder to Fried
by Antonio Quesada - 261-279 Law-and-economics: why Gordon Tullock prefers Napoleon Bonaparte over the Duke of Wellington; and why he may end up on St. Helena
by Jennis Biser - 281-283 Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergency of the modern world
by Karen Clay - 285-288 Gunnar Trumbull: Strength in numbers: the political power of weak interests
by George Crowley - 289-291 Ronald Coase, Ning Wang: How China became capitalist
by Nara Dillon & William Keech - 293-295 Allan H. Meltzer: why capitalism?
by Diana Thomas
December 2013, Volume 157, Issue 3
- 357-365 Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam
by Toke Aidt & Christian Bjørnskov & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Gert Svendsen - 367-385 The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years
by Michael Lewis-Beck & Mary Stegmaier - 387-410 Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence
by Jakob Haan & Jeroen Klomp - 411-428 Voting functions in the EU-15
by Linda Gonçalves Veiga - 429-448 Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections
by Rodrigo Martins & Francisco Veiga - 449-474 Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
by Mogens Justesen & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 475-509 Institutions and savings in developing and emerging economies
by Andreas Freytag & Sebastian Voll - 511-542 Democratization and the size of government: evidence from the long 19th century
by Toke Aidt & Peter Jensen - 543-567 The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy
by Désirée Teobaldelli & Friedrich Schneider - 569-584 Inter-country differences in voter satisfaction with the democratic process: a study of world elections
by Vani Borooah & Anastasios Katos & Eleni Katsouli - 585-599 Why does bureaucratic corruption occur in the EU?
by Urs Brandt & Gert Svendsen - 601-628 Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis
by Zohid Askarov & Hristos Doucouliagos - 629-639 Trust as an alternative to risk
by Eric Uslaner - 641-669 Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development?
by Christian Bjørnskov & Pierre-Guillaume Méon - 671-689 The size of human capital externalities: cross-country evidence
by Rasmus Thönnessen & Erich Gundlach
October 2013, Volume 157, Issue 1
- 1-2 Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam
by Robert Tollison - 3-24 Campaign contributions as valence
by Timothy Lambie-Hanson - 25-39 Does a membership fee foster successful public good provision? An experimental investigation of the provision of a step-level collective good
by Mohamed Bchir & Marc Willinger - 41-50 On political connectedness and the arrest of Ivan Boesky
by Charles Knoeber & Mark Walker - 51-56 The provision of lighthouses services: a political economy perspective
by Laurent Carnis - 57-71 The political economy of the Reconstruction Era’s race riots
by Art Carden & Christopher Coyne - 73-90 Bandwagon effects in British elections, 1885–1910
by Robert Hodgson & John Maloney - 91-113 White supremacist groups and hate crime
by Sean Mulholland - 115-143 Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
by Tim Krieger & Jens Ruhose - 145-168 Elections with partially ordered preferences
by Michael Ackerman & Sul-Young Choi & Peter Coughlin & Eric Gottlieb & Japheth Wood - 169-181 A political economy model of market intervention
by Francisco Candel-Sánchez & Juan Perote-Peña - 183-205 Tax decentralization and local government size
by Paolo Liberati & Agnese Sacchi - 207-221 Political polarization, congressional redistricting, and trade liberalization
by James DeVault - 223-244 Dispersed communication by central bank committees and the predictability of monetary policy decisions
by Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher - 245-267 Political budget cycles and election outcomes
by Jeroen Klomp & Jakob Haan - 269-286 Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification
by Christian Bjørnskov & Gert Svendsen - 287-304 Policy persistence and rent extraction
by Silke Friedrich - 305-331 Do re-election probabilities influence public investment?
by Jon Fiva & Gisle Natvik - 333-356 Turnout and presidential coattails in congressional elections
by Jean-François Godbout
September 2013, Volume 156, Issue 3
- 387-408 The nationalization of electoral cycles in the United States: a wavelet analysis
by Luís Aguiar-Conraria & Pedro Magalhães & Maria Soares - 409-421 Institutional quality and the tenure of autocrats
by Randall Holcombe & Christopher Boudreaux - 423-441 Do budgetary institutions mitigate the common pool problem? New empirical evidence for the EU
by Jakob Haan & Richard Jong-A-Pin & Jochen Mierau - 443-465 Ideology and the size of US state government
by Andrew Pickering & James Rockey - 467-490 Media proliferation and partisan selective exposure
by Jimmy Chan & Daniel Stone - 491-516 Decentralization as a constraint to Leviathan: a panel cointegration analysis
by John Ashworth & Emma Galli & Fabio Padovano - 517-536 Time to vote?
by John Gibson & Bonggeun Kim & Steven Stillman & Geua Boe-Gibson - 537-561 Electorally unstable by supply or demand?—an examination of the causes of electoral volatility in advanced industrial democracies
by Carina Bischoff - 563-591 Two-round elections, one-round determinants? Evidence from the French municipal elections
by Aurélie Cassette & Etienne Farvaque & Jérôme Héricourt - 593-609 Are bigger governments better providers of public goods? Evidence from air pollution
by Thomas Bernauer & Vally Koubi - 611-629 Public employees lining up at the polls—the conditional effect of living and working in the same municipality
by Yosef Bhatti & Kasper Hansen - 631-651 Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the analysis of political competition?
by Fabio Padovano - 653-676 The politicians’ wage gap: insights from German members of parliament
by Andreas Peichl & Nico Pestel & Sebastian Siegloch - 677-702 Running for office again: evidence from Portuguese municipal elections
by Vítor Castro & Rodrigo Martins - 703-722 Making rules credible: divided government and political budget cycles
by Jorge Streb & Gustavo Torrens - 723-750 The rise and demise of theocracy: theory and some evidence
by Mario Ferrero - 751-752 Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement & the economic emergence of the modern world
by Art Carden - 753-755 Victor Nee, Sonja Opper: Capitalism from below: markets and institutional change in China
by Stephan Gohmann - 757-759 Lawrence H. White: The clash of economic ideas: the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years
by Randall Holcombe
July 2013, Volume 156, Issue 1
- 1-5 James Buchanan: in memoriam
by Geoffrey Brennan - 7-29 A tribute to Earl A. Thompson and, in his own words, a summary of his general economic and social theory
by Don Allison & Thomas Borcherding - 31-43 Efficiency in the provision of pure public goods by private citizens
by C. Lindsay & William Dougan - 45-60 The encomienda and the optimizing imperialist: an interpretation of Spanish imperialism in the Americas
by Ronald Batchelder & Nicolas Sanchez - 61-75 Political institutions and sovereign borrowing: evidence from nineteenth-century Argentina
by Sebastián Saiegh - 77-94 Candidate positioning and responsiveness to constituent opinion in the U.S. House of Representatives
by Michael Peress - 95-103 The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization
by James Kostelnik & David Skarbek - 105-123 The religious transition. A long-run perspective
by Martin Paldam & Erich Gundlach - 125-137 Terrorist success in hostage-taking missions: 1978–2010
by Charlinda Santifort & Todd Sandler - 139-161 ABA ratings: what do they really measure?
by John Lott - 163-180 Biased beliefs and retrospective voting: why democracies choose mediocre policies
by Ivo Bischoff & Lars-H. Siemers - 181-194 Electoral cycles in active labor market policies
by Mario Mechtel & Niklas Potrafke - 195-211 Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries
by Helene Ehrhart - 213-228 It can happen here: the impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe
by Henning Finseraas & Ola Listhaug - 229-252 Inter-regional redistribution through infrastructure investment: tactical or programmatic?
by Albert Solé-Ollé - 253-284 Endogenous institutions and the possibility of reverse crowding out
by R. Isaac & Douglas Norton - 285-307 Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
by Jürgen Huber & Michael Kirchler - 309-327 Public employees and public sector reform implementation
by Hans Bonesrønning - 329-343 Learning by doing in contests
by Derek Clark & Tore Nilssen - 345-356 On the dynamics of legal convergence
by Bertrand Crettez & Bruno Deffains & Olivier Musy - 357-386 Politicians: be killed or survive
by Benno Torgler & Bruno Frey
June 2013, Volume 155, Issue 3
- 189-209 Slavery: a dual-equilibrium model with some historical examples
by Ron Rogowski - 211-228 Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
by Michael Dorsch - 229-250 How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832
by Toke Aidt & Raphaël Franck - 251-271 It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 273-292 Gypsy law
by Peter Leeson - 293-316 Progressive taxation and tax morale
by Philipp Doerrenberg & Andreas Peichl - 317-334 Economic voting in Portuguese municipal elections
by Rodrigo Martins & Francisco Veiga - 335-353 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers as pork barrel
by Linda Veiga & Francisco Veiga - 355-371 Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign?
by Pablo Amorós & M. Puy - 373-394 Decision costs in legislative bargaining: an experimental analysis
by Luis Miller & Christoph Vanberg - 395-411 Better that ten guilty persons escape: punishment costs explain the standard of evidence
by Matteo Rizzolli & Margherita Saraceno