Public Choice

Article	Citations
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	258
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	49
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	28
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	26
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	24
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	23
A reservation economic freedom index	19
The quality of state governance as a source of international differences in total factor productivity	18
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	18
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	17
Duverger’s tilted balance: “Two-party system” operationalized	16
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	16
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	16
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	15
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	15
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	15
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	14
Murder in the Marketplace	13
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	13
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	13
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	13
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	13
Two cheers for humanomics	12
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	12
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	11

Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	11
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	11
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	10
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	10
Organized thuggery	10
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	10
The inefficiency of moderate political coercion: a cross-country comparison of coercion intensity, state legitimacy, and regime stability	10
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	10
Putting economics back in Humanomics	10
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	10
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	10
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	9
The long decline of trust in democratic institutions	9
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	9
Meritocracy and its discontents	9
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	8
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	8
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	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)	8
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	8
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	8
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	8
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	7
Editorial announcement	7
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	7
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	7
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	7
Fiscal capacity and the flypaper effect	7
The political economy of paternalism	7
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	7
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	7
Prediction paradoxes and litigation incentives	7
A characterization of Black’s voting rule	7
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	7
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	7
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	7
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	6
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	6
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	6
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	6
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	6
Press freedom and government spending efficiency	6
Review of Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education by Augustina Paglayan	6
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	6
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	6
An almost laboratory experiment: John Cowperthwaite and Hong Kong’s economic prosperity	6
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	6
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	6
Measuring constitutional loyalty	6
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	6

Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	6
Political competition and Chinese official data	6
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	6
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	6
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	5
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	5
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	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
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
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	5
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
Political power and wealth distribution: how anti-corruption reforms reshape inequality	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	5
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	5
Individualism and racial tolerance	5
Nothing comes for free: the impact of place-based tax incentives on firms’ costs	5
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	5
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	5
On the nature and structure of externalities	4
When electoral reforms backfire: reassessing reelection’s impact on corruption	4
Political economy of financial crisis duration	4
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	4
How terrorism affects support for democracy	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
Home alone	4
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	4
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	4
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	4
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	4
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	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 determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
Inequality and terrorism: a meta-regression analysis	4
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	4
Do US presidents leave fiscal fingerprints? the power of the executive branch through a century of tax data	4
Party discipline, representation, and the condorcet jury theorem	4
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	4
Loose bricks in the wall: Underground press and political opposition in non-democracies	4
Political central bank coverage	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	4
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	4
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	4
A game theory approach to football predictions	4
First things first? Austerity, political parties and the composition of public budgets in the German states	3
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	3
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	3
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	3
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	3
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox	3
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	3
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Imperial Japan, civilian control, and democratic reversal	3
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	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
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	3
Emigration and origin country economic institutions	3
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	3
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	3
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	3
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	3
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	3
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	3
Borda count in a forward agenda	3
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	3
Electoral autocracy with powerful local elites: theory and evidence from Brazil	3
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	3
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	3
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	3
The political economy of public health	3
Juries in flux	3
Rational gridlock	3
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	3
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	3
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	3
Ranked choice voting with different elimination procedures	3
Compulsory military service and opinions toward cross-strait relations: evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 military reform	3

Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Editorial announcement	3
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	3
The economic consequences of cultural diversity in political organizations	3
Concurrent elections, candidate entry, and local competition	3
Ethnic bias, commitment and public good provisioning	3
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	3
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	3
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	3
Gender bias in competitive music composition evaluation: an experimental study	2
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	2
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	2
Allocating faculty compute budgets	2
Government externalities	2
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	2
Wealth inequality and democracy	2
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	2
Alain Marciano: James Buchanan and peaceful cooperation	2
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Aris Trantidis, Clientelism. Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. iv + 84 pages. USD 23 (paperback)	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
Beyond free riding or free racing: a framework for understanding subnational tax policy interdependence	2
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	2
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	2
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	2
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	2
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	2
Repression and international trade: an analysis of Chinese trade volumes with Islamic countries	2
Economic conditions and voting behavior	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	2
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	2
Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda	2
Turnout and the distortion of representation: the case of electoral polarization	2
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	2
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	2
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	2
The decisional logic of treaty regime-making	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	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 political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
An interest-group theory of AI-tool governance in science	2
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	2
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	2
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	2
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	2
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	2
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	2
The “Missing Sibling” effect: how China’s one-child policy reshaped grassroots voting	2
Optimal lockdowns	2
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	2
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	2
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	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
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Corporate lobbying, political action committees, and market concentration	2
The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
The power of the banking lobby and its consequences: a scoping review	2
New brooms sweep cleaner? political term and air pollution governance	2
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	2
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
Democratic backsliding as a Pigouvian political externality	1
Can corruption indices lead to statistical discrimination? Experimental evidence from a within-country setting	1
Editorial announcement	1
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	1
The rise of Christianity, the demise of Greco-Roman religion, and economics	1
Do people make their votes count? An experimental study on voter errors and electoral systems	1
Are there normative social epistemologies? Vernon Smith, Adam Smith, and the challenge of systems	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
The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue	1
Corruption, bribery, and market reform	1
Do voters use information on candidates? Experimental evidence from a recent election	1
How to choose a compatible committee?	1
Political alignment and the distribution of investment subsidies: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany	1
The political economy of fiscal responsibility	1
Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power	1
Mixed electoral systems: an introduction to the special issue	1
Sympathy with resentment: Willingness to report criminal behavior depends on the punishment	1
Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic	1
Bob Ekelund: a modern renaissance man	1
Popular autocrats: why do voters support Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary? A quantitative analysis	1
Does more democracy encourage individualism?: evidence from women’s suffrage in the US	1
Clement counsels corinth: efficient hierarchy and the rise of Christianity	1
In defense of knavish constitutions	1
The political economy of public enterprise dividends	1
Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort	1
Moderating (mis)information	1