Public Choice

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	186
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	42
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	24
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	22
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	18
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	18
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	17
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	16
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	14
A reservation economic freedom index	13
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	13
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	13
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	12
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	11
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	10
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	10
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Editorial announcement	10
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	10
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	10
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	9
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	9
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	9

Two cheers for humanomics	9
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	9
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	9
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	8
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	7
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	7
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	7
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	7
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	7
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	6
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	6
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	6
Meritocracy and its discontents	6
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
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	6
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	6
Editorial announcement	6
Putting economics back in Humanomics	6
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	6
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	5
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 39.9	5
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	5
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	5
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	5
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	5
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	5
The political economy of paternalism	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	5
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
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)	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	4

Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	4
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	4
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	4
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	4
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)	4
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	4
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	4
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	4
The implementability of liberalism	4
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	4
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	4
Political competition and Chinese official data	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	4
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	4
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	4
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox	3
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	3
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
A game theory approach to football predictions	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
Home alone	3
How terrorism affects support for democracy	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	3
The political economy of public health	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
On the nature and structure of externalities	3
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	3
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	3
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	3
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	3
Political economy of financial crisis duration	3
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	3
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
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)	3
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	3
Political central bank coverage	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	3
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, 201	2
Juries in flux	2
George A. Selgin, False dawn: the New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933–1947. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xiv + 370 pages. USD 35.00 (hardback)	2
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	2
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	2
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	2
Borda count in a forward agenda	2
Incentives for non-participation: absence in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–2015	2
Editorial announcement	2
The decisional logic of treaty regime-making	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	2
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	2
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	2
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	2
Corporate lobbying, political action committees, and market concentration	2
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	2
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	2
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	2
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	2
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	2
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	2
Emigration and origin country economic institutions	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	2

Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Rational gridlock	2
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	2
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	2
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
Wealth inequality and democracy	2
The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	2
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	2
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	2
Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover)	2
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	2
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	2
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	2
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	2
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	2
The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda	2
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	2
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	2
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	2
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	2
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	2
Optimal lockdowns	2
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	2
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe	1
Too hot to play it cool? Temperature and negative media bias	1
The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue	1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	1
Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities	1
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America	1
Fiscal performance and the re-election of finance ministers–evidence from the Swiss cantons	1
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	1
Housing values and jurisdictional fragmentation	1
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	1
Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Raufhon Salahodjaev, Toward a political economy of the commons: simple rules for sustainability	1
Economic conditions and voting behavior	1
Partially verifiable deliberation in voting	1
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	1
The power of empirical evidence: assessing changes in public opinion on constitutional emergency provisions	1
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	1
Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray	1
Testing Piketty’s hypothesis on the drivers of income inequality: evidence from panel VARs with heterogeneous dynamics	1
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	1
Government externalities	1
Bob Ekelund’s approach to economics	1
Aid for incumbents: the electoral consequences of COVID-19 relief	1
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	1
Are there normative social epistemologies? Vernon Smith, Adam Smith, and the challenge of systems	1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori	1
Can experimental methods put Smithian sympathy to the test?	1
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets	1
The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland	1
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	1
Mixed electoral systems: an introduction to the special issue	1
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	1
Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. Pandemic politics: the deadly toll of partisanship in the age of COVID. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xii + 400	1
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	1
Coups and constitutional change	1
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	1
Is country leaders’ education relevant for policy making? The case of the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Conflict under the shadow of elections	1
The power of the banking lobby and its consequences: a scoping review	1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level	1
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints	1
The mixed local-proportional electoral system: balancing political interests and common good	1
Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort	1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	1
Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
Bob Ekelund: a modern renaissance man	1
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)	1
Equilibrium responses to price controls: a supply-chain approach	1
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	1
Voting like a human	1
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?	1
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)	1
Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19	1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children	1
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	1