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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Public choice and public health	31
Globalization and populism in Europe	28
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias	27
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms	22
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	18
New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities	15
Political economy of financial crisis duration	15
Legal corruption?	14
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	14
The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion: a public choice perspective	13
Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755	12
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile	12
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers	11
Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship?	11
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?	11
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910	10
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	10
On the nature and structure of externalities	9
János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism	9
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	9
Optimal lockdowns	9
Voting for the underdog or jumping on the bandwagon? Evidence from India’s exit poll ban	9
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017	8
Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai	8
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	8

Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures	8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	8
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis	8
Government externalities	7
Public health and expert failure	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
Marx after Kornai	7
Novel externalities	7
In the land of OZ: designating opportunity zones	7
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	7
Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives	7
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival	7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	7
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by	7
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	7
How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences	6
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism	6
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	6
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country	6
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	6
Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level	6
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	6
Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?	6
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	6
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism	5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	5
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	5
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	5
Droughts and corruption	5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	5
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?	4
Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups	4
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	4
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia	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
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice	4
Decomposing political advertising effects on vote choices	4
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo	4
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime	4
Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business?	4

Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	4
Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending	4
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil	3
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	3
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns?	3
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	3
Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx	3
Veto players, market discipline, and structural fiscal consolidations	3
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings	3
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift	3
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	3
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	3
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era	3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	3
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	3
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics	3
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory	3