Public Choice

Article	Citations
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	224
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	45
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	26
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	22
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	21
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	20
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	18
A reservation economic freedom index	16
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	16
The quality of state governance as a source of international differences in total factor productivity	15
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	14
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	12
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	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
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	11
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	11
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	11
Two cheers for humanomics	10
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	10
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	10

Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	10
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	10
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	10
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	9
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	9
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	9
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	9
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	9
Putting economics back in Humanomics	9
Meritocracy and its discontents	8
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	8
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	8
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)	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
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	7
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	7
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	7
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	7
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	7
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	7
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	7
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	6
Political competition and Chinese official data	6
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	6
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	6
Prediction paradoxes and litigation incentives	6
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	6
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	6
Measuring constitutional loyalty	6
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	6
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	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 Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	6
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	6
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	6
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	6
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	6
The political economy of paternalism	6
Editorial announcement	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	6
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	6
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	5
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	5
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
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	5
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	5
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	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
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	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
Individualism and racial tolerance	5
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	5
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	4
Inequality and terrorism: a meta-regression analysis	4
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	4
Political central bank coverage	4
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	4
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	4
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	4
Home alone	4
How terrorism affects support for democracy	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 political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	4
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	4
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	4
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	4
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
A game theory approach to football predictions	3
Political economy of financial crisis duration	3
Compulsory military service and opinions toward cross-strait relations: evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 military reform	3
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	3
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	3
First things first? Austerity, political parties and the composition of public budgets in the German states	3
Do US presidents leave fiscal fingerprints? the power of the executive branch through a century of tax data	3
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	3
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	3
Juries in flux	3
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	3
Rational gridlock	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	3
On the nature and structure of externalities	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	3
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	3
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	3
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Editorial announcement	3
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	3
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	3
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	3
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	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
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	3
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	3
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	3
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	3
Borda count in a forward agenda	3
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	3
Electoral autocracy with powerful local elites: theory and evidence from Brazil	3
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	3
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	3
Emigration and origin country economic institutions	3
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox	3
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	3
The political economy of public health	3
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	2
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	2
The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	2
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	2
The power of the banking lobby and its consequences: a scoping review	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 decisional logic of treaty regime-making	2
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	2
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	2
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	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
Alain Marciano: James Buchanan and peaceful cooperation	2
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
Contracting unverifiable quality in healthcare: the importance of political stability for relational contracts	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	2
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	2
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	2
The “Missing Sibling” effect: how China’s one-child policy reshaped grassroots voting	2
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	2
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	2
Economic conditions and voting behavior	2
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	2
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	2
Corporate lobbying, political action committees, and market concentration	2
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	2
Optimal lockdowns	2
Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	2
The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	2
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	2
Wealth inequality and democracy	2
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	2
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	2
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	2
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	2
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	2
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	2
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	2
Government externalities	2
The mixed local-proportional electoral system: balancing political interests and common good	1
In defense of knavish constitutions	1
Aid for incumbents: the electoral consequences of COVID-19 relief	1
Political alignment and the distribution of investment subsidies: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany	1
Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power	1
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	1
Can corruption indices lead to statistical discrimination? Experimental evidence from a within-country setting	1
Fiscal capacity and executive constraints in early modern Europe	1
The political economy of fiscal responsibility	1
Usury enforcement as an alternative to capital taxation in pre-modern states	1
Political cycles’ impact on Chinese local governments’ environmental expenditures	1
The Minsk Game	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
How to choose a compatible committee?	1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	1
Moderating (mis)information	1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	1
Sympathy with resentment: Willingness to report criminal behavior depends on the punishment	1
Are there normative social epistemologies? Vernon Smith, Adam Smith, and the challenge of systems	1
Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic	1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori	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
Corruption, bribery, and market reform	1
Popular autocrats: why do voters support Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary? A quantitative analysis	1
Do voters use information on candidates? Experimental evidence from a recent election	1
Empowering the principal: how direct democracy shapes trust in institutions	1
Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic	1
Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary	1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level	1
Mixed electoral systems: an introduction to the special issue	1
Repression and international trade: an analysis of Chinese trade volumes with Islamic countries	1
Clement counsels corinth: efficient hierarchy and the rise of Christianity	1
Too hot to play it cool? Temperature and negative media bias	1
Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort	1
Bob Ekelund’s approach to economics	1
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
Can experimental methods put Smithian sympathy to the test?	1
Editorial announcement	1
A tournament theory of congressional committee leadership	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
Do people make their votes count? An experimental study on voter errors and electoral systems	1
Does more democracy encourage individualism?: evidence from women’s suffrage in the US	1
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America	1
The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue	1