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June 2013, Volume 155, Issue 3
- 413-432 Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
by Axel Dreher & Martin Gassebner - 433-448 Voters’ commitment problem and reforms in welfare programs
by David Hollanders & Barbara Vis - 449-468 Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics?
by Andrew Young & Russell Sobel - 469-491 Identity and redistribution
by Erik Lindqvist & Robert Östling - 493-505 The political economy of fertility
by Thorsten Janus - 507-529 Academic faculty governance and recruitment decisions
by Jens Prüfer & Uwe Walz - 531-552 The economic value of military connections in Turkey
by Gökçe Göktepe & Shanker Satyanath - 553-555 Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political economy, concisely: essays on policy that does not work and markets that do; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2009. xii + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth) and Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political philosophy, clearly: essays on freedom and fairness, property and equalities; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2010. xi + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth)
by Michael Munger - 557-559 Ron Smith: Military economics: the interaction of power and money
by Adam Pellillo - 561-563 Ruth Grant: Strings attached: untangling the ethics of incentives
by Jason Brennan - 565-567 Joseph Shaanan: Economic freedom and the American dream
by Joshua Hall
April 2013, Volume 155, Issue 1
- 1-18 Tax earmarking, party politics and gubernatorial veto: theory and evidence from US states
by Jeremy Jackson - 19-41 The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization”
by William Pyle & Laura Solanko - 43-60 Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development
by Adalgiso Amendola & Joshy Easaw & Antonio Savoia - 61-79 Power indices in large voting bodies
by Dennis Leech - 81-107 Independent central banks, regime type, and fiscal performance: the case of post-communist countries
by Cristina Bodea - 109-137 Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems: the case of the environment
by Martin Halla & Friedrich Schneider & Alexander Wagner - 139-161 Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner
by James Adams & Samuel Merrill - 163-187 Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006
by Indra Soysa & Krishna Vadlammanati
March 2013, Volume 154, Issue 3
- 163-171 Remembering Vincent Ostrom: unhorsing a dominant paradigm
by David Lowery - 173-195 Trade openness and public expenditure. The Spanish case, 1960–2000
by Estela Sáenz & Marcela Sabaté & M. Gadea - 197-215 The timing of elections in federations: a disciplining device against soft budget constraints?
by Karolina Kaiser & Emmanuelle Taugourdeau - 217-241 Bicameral bargaining and federation formation
by Ross Hickey - 243-258 Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis
by Andrew Abbott & Philip Jones - 259-284 Is there an incumbency advantage or cost of ruling in proportional election systems?
by Che-Yuan Liang - 285-313 The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability
by Eoin McGuirk - 315-321 Islam and democracy: a response
by Marek Hanusch - 323-332 Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: a reply and update
by Niklas Potrafke - 333-335 Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert D. Tollison: Economic origins of Roman Christianity
by Charles North - 337-340 Dennis M.P. McCarthy: An economic history of organized crime: a national and transnational approach
by Nicholas Snow - 341-343 Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East
by Mark Koyama
January 2013, Volume 154, Issue 1
- 1-20 The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources
by Matthias Busse & Steffen Gröning - 21-37 Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system
by Adam Martin & Diana Thomas - 39-58 Charitable giving in the German welfare state: fiscal incentives and crowding out
by Timm Bönke & Nima Massarrat-Mashhadi & Christian Sielaff - 59-73 The politics of digits: evidence of odd taxation
by Asmus Olsen - 75-94 Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units
by Claus Beisbart & Luc Bovens - 95-117 Modeling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter?
by Katharina Schone & Wilfried Koch & Catherine Baumont - 119-137 Committee jurisdiction, congressional behavior and policy outcomes
by John de Figueiredo - 139-148 District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: a comment and reinterpretation
by John Carey & Simon Hix - 149-151 District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences—a reply and new perspectives
by Marco Portmann & David Stadelmann & Reiner Eichenberger - 153-156 Kevin A. Clarke, David M. Primo: A model discipline: political science and the logic of representations
by Paul Dragos Aligica - 157-159 Jason Brennan: The ethics of voting
by Art Carden
December 2012, Volume 153, Issue 3
- 263-268 Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)
by Roberta Herzberg & Barbara Allen - 269-277 On choosing the alternative with the best median evaluation
by Jean-François Laslier - 279-285 Nine points of the law: evidentiary rules and the costs of litigation
by Karl Wärneryd - 287-293 The institutional dimension of election design
by Paul Edelman - 295-327 Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures
by Georgios Efthyvoulou - 329-340 Voting and economic factors in French elections for the European Parliament
by Antoine Auberger - 341-355 Contests—a comparison of timing and information structures
by Sandra Ludwig - 357-373 Why suicide-terrorists get educated, and what to do about it
by Jean-Paul Azam - 375-392 Federal legislative activism in Australia: a new approach to testing Wagner’s law
by Stephen Kirchner - 393-418 Is German domestic social policy politically controversial?
by Niklas Potrafke - 419-445 On the optimal number of representatives
by Emmanuelle Auriol & Robert Gary-Bobo - 447-467 Coalition formation on major policy dimensions: The Council of the European Union 1998 to 2004
by Peter Roozendaal & Madeleine Hosli & Caspar Heetman - 469-485 Adam Smith or Machiavelli? Political incentives for contracting out local public services
by Anders Sundell & Victor Lapuente - 487-494 Tolerance and economic growth revisited: a note
by Eduard Bomhoff & Grace Lee - 495-502 Tolerance and growth: modeling the empirical relationship
by Niclas Berggren & Mikael Elinder - 503-505 Robert I. Rotberg: Transformative political leadership: making a difference in the developing world
by Michael McBride - 507-509 Adrian Vermeule: The system of the constitution
by Jeremy Horpedahl - 511-513 Mark Pennington: Robust political economy: classical liberalism and the future of public policy
by Peter Boettke - 515-517 Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators
by Paul Mahoney - 519-519 Erratum to: Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators
by Paul Mahoney
October 2012, Volume 153, Issue 1
- 1-7 Remembering Bill Niskanen: pursuing economics as a public science in the service of liberty
by Richard Wagner - 9-16 Choosing for others: A neglected element in the theory of collective action
by J. Buchanan & Y. Yoon - 17-36 Travel visas
by Robert Lawson & Jayme Lemke - 37-54 Why fight secession? Evidence of economic motivations from the American Civil War
by Zachary Liscow - 55-68 Revealing information in electoral competition
by Mike Felgenhauer - 69-82 The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests
by Paul Schweinzer & Ella Segev - 83-115 Costs of taxation and the size of government
by Jørgen Andersen - 117-147 Violence, bribery, and fraud: the political economy of elections in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Paul Collier & Pedro Vicente - 149-161 The evolution of sharing rules in rent seeking contests: Incentives crowd out cooperation
by Heinrich Ursprung - 163-169 Estimation of party positions: A comment on Schofield and Zakharov (2010)
by Monika Turyna - 171-190 Seniority and anti-competitive restrictions on the legislative common pool: tenure’s impact on the overall production of legislation and the concentration of political benefits
by Russell Sobel & Matt Ryan - 191-204 Regulators and Redskins
by Bentley Coffey & Patrick McLaughlin & Robert Tollison - 205-213 Persistent rent extraction
by Leif Helland & Rune Sørensen - 215-233 Determinants of the assignment of EU funds to Portuguese municipalities
by Linda Veiga - 235-249 Correcting mistakes: cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States
by Mikael Elinder - 251-252 Shmuel Nitzan: Collective preference and choice
by Daniel Sutter - 253-255 Timothy Besley, Torsten Person: Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters
by Claudia Williamson - 257-259 Peter J. Boettke: Living economics: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
by Richard Wagner - 261-261 Erratum to: Environmental cooperation: ratifying second-best agreements
by Pierre Courtois & Guillaume Haeringer
September 2012, Volume 152, Issue 3
- 245-252 Towards a (re-)integration of the social sciences: The Calculus of Consent at 50
by Georg Vanberg & Viktor Vanberg - 253-255 Genesis
by James Buchanan - 257-257 My path to The Calculus of Consent
by Gordon Tullock - 259-263 States without romance
by Richard Adelstein - 265-271 From The Calculus of Consent to extended logrolling, negative externalities, and the Coase theorem
by Peter Bernholz - 273-278 Growing up with The Calculus of Consent
by Roger Congleton - 279-283 From The Calculus of Consent to The Calculus of Dissent: a personal promenade in the constitutional square
by Giuseppe Eusepi - 285-288 From The Calculus of Consent to public choice and to public economics in a public choice approach
by Francesco Forte - 289-292 The Calculus of Consent reflected
by Alan Hamlin - 293-298 Personal reflections on the influence of Buchanan, Tullock, and The Calculus of Consent
by Charles Plott - 299-302 From the Open Society to The Calculus of Consent: a long journey
by Pierre Salmon - 303-309 Public choice and public life
by Randy Simmons - 311-312 1966
by Robert Tollison - 313-321 The Calculus of Consent: some Swedish connections
by Niclas Berggren - 323-327 Public choice and political philosophy
by Loren Lomasky - 329-332 James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and The Calculus
by Dennis Mueller - 333-337 Learning how the world works in order to make it work ‘better’
by Pedro Puy Fraga - 339-344 The Calculus of Consent and real world constitution-making
by Sujai Shivakumar - 345-349 The Calculus of Consent at fifty: the development of public choice in Japan
by Akira Yokoyama - 351-358 Politics-as-exchange and The Calculus of Consent
by Geoffrey Brennan - 359-363 Toward an integrated theory of human cooperation: an ongoing research agenda
by Zhihong Mo - 365-370 The market as a cooperative endeavour
by Robert Sugden - 371-380 Property rights, the social contract and the requirements for democratic government: reflections on The Calculus of Consent
by Dan Usher - 381-388 Methodological and normative individualism in The Calculus
by Viktor Vanberg - 389-392 Redistribution as income insurance?
by Roland Vaubel - 393-396 The Calculus of Consent: a compass for my professional journey
by Richard Wagner - 397-401 Constitutional effectiveness
by Albert Breton - 403-406 Buchanan and Tullock’s apple
by Keith Dougherty - 407-413 Modeling constitutional choice: reflections on The Calculus of Consent 50 years on
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 415-421 Coercion, the state, and the obligations of citizenship
by Michael Munger - 423-426 The Calculus of Consent: reforming political science
by Peter Ordeshook - 427-431 Buchanan’s opening to constitutional choice and meta-levels of analysis
by Vincent Ostrom - 433-437 Meeting Plato’s challenge?
by Michael Baurmann - 439-443 The consents of The Calculus
by Hartmut Kliemt - 445-449 The unanimity rule revisited: the case of revisions of hybrid constitutions
by Christian Kirchner - 451-453 Markets, votes, and The Calculus of Consent
by Francesco Parisi - 455-459 Constitutional neutrality among economic policies
by Guido Pincione - 461-466 Economics of collective choice—the missing dimension of constitutional theory
by Suri Ratnapala
July 2012, Volume 152, Issue 1
- 3-27 The life and times of Gordon Tullock
by Charles Rowley & Daniel Houser - 29-46 The intellectual legacy of Gordon Tullock
by Charles Rowley - 47-60 Gordon Tullock and Public Choice
by Dennis Mueller - 61-72 Voting methods, problems of majority rule, and demand-revealing procedures
by Michael Munger - 73-82 The economic theory of rent seeking
by Robert Tollison - 83-95 Why so much stability? Majority voting, legislative institutions, and Gordon Tullock
by Kenneth Shepsle & Barry Weingast - 97-101 Gordon Tullock’s contribution to bureaucracy
by William Niskanen - 103-114 What should government do? Problems of social cost, externalities and all that
by Michael Reksulak & William Shughart - 115-130 Autocracy and coups d’etat
by Ronald Wintrobe - 131-146 The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock
by Roger Congleton - 147-161 Towards a theory of bicameralism: the neglected contributions of the calculus of consent
by Bernard Grofman & Thomas Brunell & Scott Feld - 163-180 Tullock on motivated inquiry: expert-induced uncertainty disguised as risk
by David Levy & Sandra Peart - 181-201 Litigation and legal evolution: does procedure matter?
by Barbara Luppi & Francesco Parisi - 203-210 Gordon Tullock’s contributions to bioeconomics
by Janet Landa - 211-222 Gordon Tullock and experimental economics
by Daniel Houser & Thomas Stratmann - 223-244 Agent-based modeling, public choice, and the legacy of Gordon Tullock
by Richard Wallick
June 2012, Volume 151, Issue 3
- 409-423 Assessing policy stability in Iraq: a fuzzy approach to modeling preferences
by Peter Casey & Mark Wierman & Michael Gibilisco & John Mordeson & Terry Clark - 425-444 Defensive Politics
by Edward Wesep - 445-464 Efficient public goods provision with incomplete markets
by Greg Hunter - 465-495 Volunteering and the state
by Franz Hackl & Martin Halla & Gerald Pruckner - 497-515 An evolutionary dynamic of revolutions
by Nicolas Olsson-Yaouzis - 517-536 Divided we vote
by Peter Calcagno & Edward Lopez - 537-563 Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983–2004
by Andreas Georgiadis & Alan Manning - 565-584 Environmental cooperation: ratifying second-best agreements
by Pierre Courtois & Guillaume Haeringer - 585-610 District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: Evidence from popular and parliamentary votes
by Marco Portmann & David Stadelmann & Reiner Eichenberger - 611-630 Inequality, the politics of redistribution and the tax mix
by Jenny Freitas - 631-654 Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the unemployed? Evidence from Germany
by Holger Stichnoth - 655-678 Voting for Pareto optimality: a multidimensional analysis
by Keith Dougherty & Julian Edward - 679-693 Information alliances in contests with budget limits
by Kai Konrad - 695-717 Patriotism, taxation and international mobility
by Salmai Qari & Kai Konrad & Benny Geys - 719-737 Lessons in disguise: multivariate predictive mistakes in collective choice models
by Bruce Desmarais - 739-755 Bargaining and voting
by Dan Usher - 757-787 Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies
by René Brink & Frank Steffen - 789-806 Last-period problems in legislatures
by Glenn Parker & Matthew Dabros - 807-810 Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki: Majority judgment: measuring, ranking, and electing
by Paul Edelman - 811-812 George G. Szpiro: Numbers rule: the vexing mathematics of democracy, from Plato to the present
by Justin Buchler
April 2012, Volume 151, Issue 1
- 1-21 An evaluation of EU regional policy. Do structural actions crowd out public spending?
by Juan González Alegre - 23-41 Bargaining unexplained
by Dan Usher - 43-61 Incumbent positioning, ideological heterogeneity and mobilization in U.S. House elections
by Michael Ensley - 63-90 Voter uncertainty and failure of Duverger’s law: an empirical analysis
by Michael Herrmann - 91-119 Inequity and risk aversion in sequential public good games
by Sabrina Teyssier - 121-136 Coalition incentives for political budget cycles
by Marek Hanusch - 137-148 Laffer paradox, Leviathan, and political contest
by Toshihiro Ihori & C. Yang - 149-163 Bureaucrats and short-term politics
by Marcus Drometer - 165-183 Fiscal decentralization and natural hazard risks
by Monica Escaleras & Charles Register - 185-192 Islam and democracy
by Niklas Potrafke - 193-214 Social identity and voting behavior
by Avi Ben-Bassat & Momi Dahan - 215-228 Do ideological and political motives really matter in the public choice of local services management? Evidence from urban water services in Spain
by Andrés Picazo-Tadeo & Francisco González-Gómez & Jorge Wanden-Berghe & Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde - 229-254 The economic effects of federalism and decentralization—a cross-country assessment
by Stefan Voigt & Lorenz Blume - 255-270 Determinants of government size: evidence from China
by Alfred Wu & Mi Lin - 271-287 China’s evolution toward an authoritarian market economy—a predator–prey evolutionary model with intelligent design
by Yongjing Zhang - 289-323 European monetary policy and the ECB rotation model
by Ansgar Belke & Barbara Schnurbein - 325-362 Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy in developed, established democracies?
by Margarita Katsimi & Vassilis Sarantides - 363-397 Do the IMF and the World Bank influence voting in the UN General Assembly?
by Axel Dreher & Jan-Egbert Sturm - 399-401 John Meadowcroft: James M. Buchanan
by Randall Holcombe - 403-404 Shmuel Nitzan: Collective preference and choice
by Daniel Sutter - 405-407 Federico Varese: Mafias on the move: how organized crime conquers new territories
by David Skarbek
March 2012, Volume 150, Issue 3
- 399-423 On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts
by Roger Congleton - 425-438 Competition among officials and the abuse of power
by Mikael Priks - 439-467 Uncertainty and ratification failure
by Arzu Kıbrıs - 469-498 The spirits of capitalism and socialism
by Christian Bjørnskov & Martin Paldam - 499-510 Contingent fees meet the British rule: an exploratory study
by Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe - 511-524 The paradox of voting intelligently
by R. Urbatsch - 525-545 The importance of modeling spatial spillovers in public choice analysis
by James LeSage & Matthew Dominguez - 547-559 Consistent allocation of cabinet seats: the Swiss Magic Formula
by Reiner Wolff & Yavuz Karagök - 561-578 Why is there no revolution in North Korea?
by Thomas Apolte - 579-594 How organizational structure can reduce rent-seeking
by Johannes Münster & Klaas Staal - 595-608 Deliberation in large juries with diverse preferences
by Patrick Hummel - 609-631 Property rights and competing for the affections of Demos: the impact of the 1867 Reform Act on stock prices
by John Turner & Wenwen Zhan - 633-650 Price-earnings changes during US presidential election cycles: voter uncertainty and other determinants
by John Goodell & Richard Bodey - 651-670 Political parties and political shirking
by Jason DeBacker - 671-690 Corporate governance under proportional electoral systems
by Jaekwon Suh - 691-713 Asymmetric contests with liquidity constraints
by Martin Grossmann & Helmut Dietl - 715-730 Military conscription as a means of stabilizing democratic regimes
by Antonis Adam - 731-744 Does social capital increase political accountability? An empirical test for Flemish municipalities
by Dimi Jottier & Bruno Heyndels - 745-769 Net campaign contributions, agricultural interests, and votes on liberalizing trade with China
by John Gilbert & Reza Oladi - 771-792 Voter response to congressional campaigns: new techniques for analyzing aggregate electoral behavior
by Scott Basinger & Damon Cann & Michael Ensley - 793-795 Bo Rothstein: The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective
by Robert Lawson - 797-799 Bjorn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis (eds.): The role of governments in legislative agenda setting
by Matt Ryan