OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Choice is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	16
Duverger’s tilted balance: “Two-party system” operationalized	16
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	16
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	15
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	15
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	15
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	14
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
Murder in the Marketplace	13
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	13
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	13
Two cheers for humanomics	12
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	12
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	11

The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	11
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	11
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
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
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	9
Meritocracy and its discontents	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Individualism and racial tolerance	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
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	5
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	5
Nothing comes for free: the impact of place-based tax incentives on firms’ costs	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
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
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	5
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	5
Political power and wealth distribution: how anti-corruption reforms reshape inequality	5
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
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