OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Choice is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	158
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	40
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	36
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	26
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	21
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	20
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	17
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	16
A reservation economic freedom index	15
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	15
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	13
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions	12
Editorial announcement	12
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	12
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	10
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	10
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	9
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	9
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	8
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	8
Two cheers for humanomics	8

Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	8
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	8
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	7
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	7
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	7
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	7
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	7
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel	6
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	6
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	6
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	6
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	6
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	6
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	6
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	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
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	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	5
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	5
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	5
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	5
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	5
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Editorial announcement	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
The political economy of paternalism	5
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	5
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	5
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	5
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	5
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	5
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	4
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	4
Political competition and Chinese official data	4
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	4

The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	4
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)	4
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	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
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	4
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	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
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	3
The implementability of liberalism	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	3
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Home alone	3
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	3
Political central bank coverage	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3