Public Choice

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Choice is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries102
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art32
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue25
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy24
Axiomatization of plurality refinements20
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation14
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections14
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions14
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics14
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life11
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)11
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions10
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis10
A reservation economic freedom index10
Editorial announcement9
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?9
Institutionally constrained drone adoption9
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity9
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China8
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems8
Bart J. Wilson, The property species: mine, yours, and the human mind. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxvii + 230 Pages. USD 35.00 (Paperback)8
Regulatory capture in a resource boom8
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices8
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective8
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement7
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence7
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation7
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice7
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion7
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)6
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?6
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment6
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note6
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice6
Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: a new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback)6
Two cheers for humanomics6
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang6
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government5
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes5
Editorial announcement5
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations5
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties5
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance5
Expert knowledge and the administrative state5
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue5
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man5
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Hanan Amin-Salem, Amira El-Shal, and Eman Moustafa, The political economy of crisis management and reform in Egypt. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Xiii + 167 pages. EUR 39.95
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments5
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes4
Measuring constitutional loyalty4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy4
The Democrat-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret4
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power4
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country4
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 19444
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox4
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence4
The political economy of paternalism4
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption4
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war4
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests4
Immigrants as future voters3
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 19203
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue3
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world3
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries3
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism3
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment3
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size3
Individualism and racial tolerance3
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games3
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)3
Samuel Gregg, The next American Economy: Nation, State, and markets in an Uncertain World. New York, NY: Encounter Books, 2022. Xvi + 335 pages. USD 22.49 (hardcover)3
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions3
Hong Liu, The political economy of transnational governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 220 Pages. USD 142.85 (Hardcover)3
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers3
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences3
The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School3
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar3
The implementability of liberalism3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?3
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities3
Home alone2
Federal reserve appointments and the politics of senate confirmation2
Sebastián Edwards, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 343 pages. USD $27.49 (hardback)2
The political economy of public health2
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa2
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France2
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions2
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data2
Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups2
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions2
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons2
Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes2
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework2
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China2
Political central bank coverage2
Evidence and fully revealing deliberation with non-consequentialist jurors2
Peter J. Boettke and Solomon M. Stein (eds.), Buchanan’s tensions: reexamining the political economy and philosophy of James M. Buchanan, Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2012
Does discrimination in lending still persist?2
Borda count in a forward agenda2
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade2
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests2
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule2
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine2
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution2
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage2
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China2
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined2
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research2
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe2
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy2
Scott scheall, F.A. Hayek and the epistemology of politics: the curious task of economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 200 Pages. USD 160.00 (hardback)2
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism2
Public employment and homeownership dynamics2
On the nature and structure of externalities2
Editorial announcement2
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice2
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia2
Political economy of financial crisis duration2
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults2
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars2
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy2
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?1
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe1
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?1
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)1
Optimal lockdowns1
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments1
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus1
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy1
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect1
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity1
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect1
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework1
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament1
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?1
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business1
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets1
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials1
Heinrich Ursprung: a scholarly life1
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery1
Voting like a human1
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method1
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile1
Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-191
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers1
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom1
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests1
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?1
Bryn Rosenfeld: The autocratic middle class: how state dependency reduces the demand for democracy1
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes1
The flip side of power1
Wealth inequality and democracy1
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum1
Correction to: Power-sharing negotiation and commitment in monarchies1
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens1
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale1
Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover)1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori1
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison1
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue1
Incentives for non-participation: absence in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–20151
Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled1
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions1
Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray1
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children1
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival1
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?1
Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger Meiners (eds), The Legacy of Bruce Yandle. Arlington, VA: Mercatus center, 2020. xviii + 270 pages. USD 19.95 (paperback)1
The economic theory of regulation and inequality1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law1
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters1
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency1
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India1
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states1
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue1
Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design1
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap1
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue1
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?1
Government externalities1
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–20181
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America1
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy1
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level1
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England1
Road maintenance over the local election cycle1
In Janos Kornai’s memory1
Bob Ekelund – a recollection1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)1
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime1
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence1
You have nothing to lose but your chains?1
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