Public Choice

Article	Citations
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias	39
Public choice and public health	31
Globalization and populism in Europe	30
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	23
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	16
Political economy of financial crisis duration	15
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile	14
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	12
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?	11
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers	11
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910	11
On the nature and structure of externalities	11
Optimal lockdowns	10
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by	9
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	9
Individualism and racial tolerance	8
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival	8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	8
Government externalities	8
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	8
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017	8
Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai	8
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis	8
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	8
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic	7

How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences	7
Public health and expert failure	7
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	7
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	7
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	7
Novel externalities	7
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	6
Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?	6
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	6
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism	6
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country	6
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals	6
Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?	6
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	6
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	6
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	5
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime	5
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	5
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	5
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	5
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia	5
Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business?	5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school	5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	5
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	5
Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia	5
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism	5
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	5
Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending	5
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice	4
Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo	4
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	4
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	4
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	4
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	4
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics	4
Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups	4
Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited	3
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	3
Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx	3
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change	3
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	3

Bureaucratic beliefs and law enforcement	3
Will quadratic voting produce optimal public policy?	3
Endogenous choice of institutional punishment mechanisms to promote social cooperation	3
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	3
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	3
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	3
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory	3
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons	3
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	3
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings	3
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	3
Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift	3
Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	2
In defense of knavish constitutions	2
Giuseppe Eusepi: a courageous and cheerful countenance for the ages	2
State fiscal constraint and local overrides: a regression discontinuity design estimation of the fiscal effects	2
George J. Stigler’s theory of economic regulation, bootleggers, baptists and the rebirth of the public interest imperative	2
The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic	2
Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act	2
A reservation economic freedom index	2
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
Is there a demand for autocracies in Europe? Comparing the attitudes of Hungarian and Italian university students toward liberal democratic values inspired by János Kornai	2
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	2
Party-related primacy effects in proportional representation systems: evidence from a natural experiment in Polish local elections	2
Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates	2
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets	2
Cyclical accountability	2
Vote buying and redistribution	2
Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency	2
Legislative production and public spending in France	2
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	2
The Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis re-examined using tax freedom measures: the case of post-Great Recession state-level gross in-migration	2
Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Identifying the regulator’s objective: Does political support matter?	2
Network structure and performance of crony capitalism systems credible commitments without democratic institutions	2
Enumerating rights: more is not always better	2
The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest	2
The Democrat-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments	2
Analytical thinking, prosocial voting, and intergroup competition: experimental evidence from China	1
Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods?	1
The institutional structure of pollution: large-scale externalities and the common law	1
George stigler’s theory of economic regulation at 50 - introduction to a special issue	1
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?	1
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	1
Fiscal performance and the re-election of finance ministers–evidence from the Swiss cantons	1
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	1
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	1
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	1
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	1
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	1
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	1
Economics as moral exchange: James Buchanan meets Martin Buber	1
Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities	1
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	1
From Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies	1
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	1
Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors	1
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	1
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children	1
Two (lay) dogmas on externalities	1
Protection for sale: evidence from around the world	1
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	1
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	1
Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households	1
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	1
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	1
Industry size and regulation: Evidence from US states	1
Moderating (mis)information	1
Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance	1

Leave them kids alone! National exams as a political tool	1
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	1
Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach	1
A Talmudic constrained voting majority rule	1
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	1
Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation	1
The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland	1
Approval and plurality voting with uncertainty: Info-gap analysis of robustness	1
Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design	1
Usury enforcement as an alternative to capital taxation in pre-modern states	1
Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism	1
The rule of rules	1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints	1
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	1
Constitutional political economy: Ulysses and the prophet Jonah	1
The impacts of political uncertainty on public financing costs: evidence from anti-corruption investigations in China	1
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	1
Externality as a coordination problem	1
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	1
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	1
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	1
Borda count in a forward agenda	1
The grass is not greener on the other side: the role of attention in voting behavior	1
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	1
Correction: Markets and knowledge commons: is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	1
Islamic revolution and Anfal	1
Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment	1
The redistributive politics of monetary policy	1
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	1
Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes	1
Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling	1
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	1
Wealth inequality and democracy	1
Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary	1
Rewarding conservative politicians? Evidence from voting on same-sex marriage	1
Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians	1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)	1
Ludger Schuknecht, Public spending and the role of the state: history, performance, risk and remedies	1
Federal reserve appointments and the politics of senate confirmation	1
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	1