Public Choice

Article	Citations
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	232
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	45
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	27
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	23
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	22
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	21
A reservation economic freedom index	18
The quality of state governance as a source of international differences in total factor productivity	16
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	16
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	15
Duverger’s tilted balance: “Two-party system” operationalized	14
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	14
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	13
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	12
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	12
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	12
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	12
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	11
Two cheers for humanomics	11
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	11
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	11
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	10

The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	10
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	10
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	10
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	10
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	9
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	9
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	9
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	9
Putting economics back in Humanomics	9
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	9
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	9
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)	8
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	8
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	8
Meritocracy and its discontents	8
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	7
Prediction paradoxes and litigation incentives	7
Editorial announcement	7
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	7
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	7
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	7
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	7
The political economy of paternalism	7
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	7
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	7
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	7
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	7
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	7
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	6
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	6
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	6
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	6
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	6
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	6
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
Measuring constitutional loyalty	6
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	6
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	6
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	6
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	6
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	6
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	6
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	6
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)	5
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)	5
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	5
Nothing comes for free: the impact of place-based tax incentives on firms’ costs	5
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	5

Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	5
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	5
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	5
Individualism and racial tolerance	5
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	5
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
Political competition and Chinese official data	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	5
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
How terrorism affects support for democracy	4
Home alone	4
When electoral reforms backfire: reassessing reelection’s impact on corruption	4
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	4
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	4
Do US presidents leave fiscal fingerprints? the power of the executive branch through a century of tax data	4
Political central bank coverage	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	4
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	4
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	4
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	4
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	4
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
Inequality and terrorism: a meta-regression analysis	4
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	4
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	4
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	4
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	3
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox	3
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	3
Political economy of financial crisis duration	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	3
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	3
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	3
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	3
Editorial announcement	3
First things first? Austerity, political parties and the composition of public budgets in the German states	3
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Rational gridlock	3
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	3
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	3
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	3
On the nature and structure of externalities	3
A game theory approach to football predictions	3
Concurrent elections, candidate entry, and local competition	3
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	3
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	3
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	3
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	3
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	3
Electoral autocracy with powerful local elites: theory and evidence from Brazil	3
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	3
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	3
Emigration and origin country economic institutions	3
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	3
The political economy of public health	3
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	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
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	3
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	3
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	3
Compulsory military service and opinions toward cross-strait relations: evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 military reform	3
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	3
Borda count in a forward agenda	3
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	3
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	3
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	3
Juries in flux	3
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	3

Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
The mixed local-proportional electoral system: balancing political interests and common good	2
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	2
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	2
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
Economic conditions and voting behavior	2
The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	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
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	2
The power of the banking lobby and its consequences: a scoping review	2
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	2
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	2
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	2
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	2
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	2
Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	2
The decisional logic of treaty regime-making	2
Government externalities	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	2
Optimal lockdowns	2
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	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
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	2
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	2
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	2
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	2
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	2
Corporate lobbying, political action committees, and market concentration	2
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	2
Repression and international trade: an analysis of Chinese trade volumes with Islamic countries	2
Alain Marciano: James Buchanan and peaceful cooperation	2
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Aid for incumbents: the electoral consequences of COVID-19 relief	2
Wealth inequality and democracy	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	2
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	2
Contracting unverifiable quality in healthcare: the importance of political stability for relational contracts	2
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	2
The “Missing Sibling” effect: how China’s one-child policy reshaped grassroots voting	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	2
The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	2
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	2
Political cycles’ impact on Chinese local governments’ environmental expenditures	1
Surprise in contests	1
The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue	1
Does the rule matter? A comparison of preference elicitation methods and voting rules based on data from an Austrian regional parliamentary election in 2019	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
Sympathy with resentment: Willingness to report criminal behavior depends on the punishment	1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)	1
Editorial announcement	1
Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort	1
How to choose a compatible committee?	1
How does the introduction of mixed electoral systems influence women’s representation in parliaments?	1
Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe	1
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	1
The political business cycle of petroleum taxes: An analysis of Indian states	1
The political business cycle of tax reforms	1
The Minsk Game	1
Political alignment and the distribution of investment subsidies: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany	1
Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic	1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori	1
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	1
Too hot to play it cool? Temperature and negative media bias	1
Mixed electoral systems: an introduction to the special issue	1
Does more democracy encourage individualism?: evidence from women’s suffrage in the US	1
A tournament theory of congressional committee leadership	1
Do voters use information on candidates? Experimental evidence from a recent election	1
Corruption, bribery, and market reform	1
Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power	1
Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic	1
Can corruption indices lead to statistical discrimination? Experimental evidence from a within-country setting	1
The political economy of fiscal responsibility	1
Moderating (mis)information	1
Clement counsels corinth: efficient hierarchy and the rise of Christianity	1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	1
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities	1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level	1
In defense of knavish constitutions	1
Fiscal capacity and executive constraints in early modern Europe	1
Popular autocrats: why do voters support Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary? A quantitative analysis	1
Usury enforcement as an alternative to capital taxation in pre-modern states	1
The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest	1