Public Choice

Article	Citations
Culture, institutions and democratization*	51
Public choice and public health	27
Globalization and populism in Europe	25
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms	20
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	16
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias	15
Political economy of financial crisis duration	14
The rise of populist parties in the aftermath of a massive corruption scandal	13
New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities	13
The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion: a public choice perspective	12
Public expenditures and the risk of social dominance	11
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	10
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	10
Legal corruption?	10
Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755	10
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?	10
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers	10
Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship?	10
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910	9
Voting for the underdog or jumping on the bandwagon? Evidence from India’s exit poll ban	8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	8
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017	8
Optimal lockdowns	8
Buchanan at the American Founding: the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals	8
Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots: coalitions in Arkansas’ alcohol-legalization elections	7

Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	7
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile	7
János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism	7
James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion”	7
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	7
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Janos Kornai: a non-mainstream pathway from economic planning to disequilibrium economics	7
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	7
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival	7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	7
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis	7
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	7
Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai	7
Marx after Kornai	7
Public health and expert failure	7
Can a contractarian be a paternalist? The logic of James M. Buchanan’s system	7
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country	6
Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures	6
1956 in Hungary: as I saw it then and as I see it now	6
The instability of globalization: applying evolutionary game theory to global trade cooperation	6
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism	6
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	6
From subjectivism to constitutionalism: the intellectual journey of James M. Buchanan through his Italian heroes	6
Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives	6
Rally ’round which flag? Terrorism’s effect on (intra)national identity	6
The gender wage gap: an analysis of US congressional staff members	6
On the nature and structure of externalities	5
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	5
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	5
Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level	5
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?	5
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism	5
Risk aversion in two-period rent-seeking games	5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	5
The broken bridge of public finance: majority rule, earmarked taxes and social engineering	5
James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future	5
The value of political connections in the post-transition period: evidence from Czechia	5
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	5
In the land of OZ: designating opportunity zones	5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school	5
Government externalities	5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	5
Droughts and corruption	5
Marketing Communist Party membership in China	4
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime	4
Novel externalities	4
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	4
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	4

Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia	4
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	4
Decomposing political advertising effects on vote choices	4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	4
Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?	4
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia	4
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	4
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by	4
Veto players, market discipline, and structural fiscal consolidations	3
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era	3
Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Individualism and racial tolerance	3
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics	3
Ethics and good governance	3
Rediscovering Buchanan’s rediscovery: non-market exchange versus antiseptic allocation	3
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	3
Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences	3
Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx	3
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending	3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	3
The subjectivist-contrarian position	3
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns?	3
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	3
Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift	3
Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business?	3
Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo	2
Endogenous choice of institutional punishment mechanisms to promote social cooperation	2
Will quadratic voting produce optimal public policy?	2
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	2
Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates	2
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	2
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings	2
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	2
Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited	2
Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change	2
Giuseppe Eusepi: a courageous and cheerful countenance for the ages	2
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	2
Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups	2
Party-related primacy effects in proportional representation systems: evidence from a natural experiment in Polish local elections	2
George J. Stigler’s theory of economic regulation, bootleggers, baptists and the rebirth of the public interest imperative	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Cyclical accountability	2
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	2
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	2
Legislative production and public spending in France	2
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	2
Is there a demand for autocracies in Europe? Comparing the attitudes of Hungarian and Italian university students toward liberal democratic values inspired by János Kornai	2
State fiscal constraint and local overrides: a regression discontinuity design estimation of the fiscal effects	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	2
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice	2
Are suicide terrorists different from ‘regular militants’?	2
The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School	2
Immigrants as future voters	2
Network structure and performance of crony capitalism systems credible commitments without democratic institutions	2
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	2
The Democrat-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments	2
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	1
Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design	1
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	1
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	1
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	1
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	1
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	1
Constitutional political economy: Ulysses and the prophet Jonah	1
Enumerating rights: more is not always better	1
Industry size and regulation: Evidence from US states	1
The rule of rules	1
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	1
Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation	1
Vote buying and redistribution	1
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	1
Federal reserve appointments and the politics of senate confirmation	1
Economics as moral exchange: James Buchanan meets Martin Buber	1

Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods?	1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	1
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	1
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	1
In Janos Kornai’s memory	1
George stigler’s theory of economic regulation at 50 - introduction to a special issue	1
Wealth inequality and democracy	1
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	1
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	1
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets	1
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	1
The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest	1
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	1
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals	1
Analytical thinking, prosocial voting, and intergroup competition: experimental evidence from China	1
Ludger Schuknecht, Public spending and the role of the state: history, performance, risk and remedies	1
Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	1
The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland	1
A reservation economic freedom index	1
Bureaucratic beliefs and law enforcement	1
Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households	1
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: the narrow corridor: states, societies, and the fate of liberty	1
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	1
In defense of knavish constitutions	1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?	1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints	1
Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities	1
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	1
A Talmudic constrained voting majority rule	1
Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance	1
Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment	1
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	1
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	1
Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act	1
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	1
Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency	1
From Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies	1
Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling	1
Approval and plurality voting with uncertainty: Info-gap analysis of robustness	1
Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach	1
Rewarding conservative politicians? Evidence from voting on same-sex marriage	1
Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes	1
When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada	1
Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation	1
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	1
The grass is not greener on the other side: the role of attention in voting behavior	1
Arye L. Hillman: Public finance and public policy: a political economy perspective on the responsibilities and limitations of government	1