OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Choice is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial announcement	58
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	32
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	23
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	17
Andreas Thiel, William A. Blomquist, and Dustin E. Garrick (eds.): Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity	16
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)	14
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)	12
Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency	11
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	11
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	11
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	11
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	10
Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors	9
Scott scheall, F.A. Hayek and the epistemology of politics: the curious task of economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 200 Pages. USD 160.00 (hardback)	9
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	8
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	8
Ludger Schuknecht, Public spending and the role of the state: history, performance, risk and remedies	8
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	8
The political business cycle of tax reforms	8
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	8
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	8
A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state	8
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	8
Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians	7
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	7

Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	7
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	7
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	7
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	7
The implementability of liberalism	7
Enumerating rights: more is not always better	6
The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest	6
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	6
Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act	6
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017	6
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	6
Approval and plurality voting with uncertainty: Info-gap analysis of robustness	6
Vote buying and redistribution	6
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	6
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	5
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	5
Behavioral symmetry with humanomics: public choice and moral community	5
A reservation economic freedom index	5
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	5
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	5
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	5
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	5
Environmental regulation, regulatory spillovers and rent-seeking	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	5
Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe	5
Public choice and public health	4
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals	4
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	4
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	4
Correction to: Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism	4
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	4
Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary	4
Usury enforcement as an alternative to capital taxation in pre-modern states	4
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe	4
Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing?	3
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions	3
Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic	3
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	3
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	3
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	3
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	3
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	3
The political economy of rights	3
Editorial announcement	3
The political economy of climate action in Indian Country	3
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	3
The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue	3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	3

Geoffrey Brennan: scholar and gentleman	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	3
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	3
Soft-power and pro-European bias in the UNESCO World Heritage List? A test based on ICOMOS experts’ evaluations of colonial sites	3
Two (lay) dogmas on externalities	3
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America	3
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)	3
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled	2
Party leaders as welfare-maximizing coalition builders in the pursuit of party-related public goods	2
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	2
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	2
Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment	2
Persuasion and gender: experimental evidence from two political campaigns	2
Immigrants as future voters	2
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	2
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and the economics of culture	2
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	2
Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 314 Pages. USD 32.9	2
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	2
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	2
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	2
Fiscal illusion at the individual level	2
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	2
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	2
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	2
Congressional apportionment and the fourteenth amendment	2
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	2
Correction to: Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	2
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings	2
Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach	2
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	2