Public Choice

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	136
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	38
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	31
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	25
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	21
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	18
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	16
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	15
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	15
A reservation economic freedom index	14
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	12
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	12
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions	12
Editorial announcement	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	10
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	10
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	10
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	9
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	9
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	8
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	8
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	8

Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	7
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	7
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	7
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	7
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel	6
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	6
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	6
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	6
Two cheers for humanomics	6
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	6
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	6
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	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
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	6
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	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
The political economy of paternalism	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Editorial announcement	5
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	5
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	5
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	5
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	4
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	4
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	4
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	4
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	4
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	4
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	4
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	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
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	4
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	4
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	4

Political competition and Chinese official data	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3
Political central bank coverage	3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	3
The implementability of liberalism	3
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	3
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	3
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	3
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
Home alone	3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3
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)	3
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	2
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	2
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	2
The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	2
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	2
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)	2
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	2
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	2
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	2
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	2
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	2
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	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
Editorial announcement	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	2
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	2
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	2
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	2
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	2
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	2
The political economy of public health	2
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	2
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	2
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	2
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	2
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	2
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
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	2
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	2
Borda count in a forward agenda	2
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	2
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	2
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	2
Political economy of financial crisis duration	2
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	2
On the nature and structure of externalities	2
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	2
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	2
Rational gridlock	2

Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	2
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	1
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	1
Optimal lockdowns	1
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	1
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?	1
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)	1
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	1
Bob Ekelund’s approach to economics	1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	1
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children	1
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe	1
Government externalities	1
Is country leaders’ education relevant for policy making? The case of the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	1
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	1
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori	1
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	1
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	1
Incentives for non-participation: absence in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–2015	1
Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design	1
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	1
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	1
The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	1
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	1
Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19	1
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets	1
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	1
Partially verifiable deliberation in voting	1
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	1
Coups and constitutional change	1
The mixed local-proportional electoral system: balancing political interests and common good	1
Correction to: Power-sharing negotiation and commitment in monarchies	1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints	1
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America	1
Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover)	1
Voting like a human	1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level	1
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	1
Conflict under the shadow of elections	1
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	1
Bryn Rosenfeld: The autocratic middle class: how state dependency reduces the demand for democracy	1
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	1
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	1
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	1
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	1
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	1
In Janos Kornai’s memory	1
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	1
The power of empirical evidence: assessing changes in public opinion on constitutional emergency provisions	1
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	1
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	1
Heinrich Ursprung: a scholarly life	1
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)	1
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	1
Testing Piketty’s hypothesis on the drivers of income inequality: evidence from panel VARs with heterogeneous dynamics	1
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	1
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	1
Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
Wealth inequality and democracy	1
Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger Meiners (eds), The Legacy of Bruce Yandle. Arlington, VA: Mercatus center, 2020. xviii + 270 pages. USD 19.95 (paperback)	1
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	1
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	1