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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	224
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	45
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	26
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	22
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	21
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	20
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	18
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	16
A reservation economic freedom index	16
The quality of state governance as a source of international differences in total factor productivity	15
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	14
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	12
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	12
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	12
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	12
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	11
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	11
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	11
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	10
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	10
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	10

Two cheers for humanomics	10
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	10
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	10
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	9
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	9
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	9
Putting economics back in Humanomics	9
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	9
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	9
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	8
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	8
Meritocracy and its discontents	8
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	7
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	7
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	7
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	7
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	7
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)	7
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	7
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	7
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	7
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	7
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	6
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	6
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	6
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	6
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	6
The political economy of paternalism	6
Editorial announcement	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	6
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	6
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	6
Political competition and Chinese official data	6
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	6
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	6
Prediction paradoxes and litigation incentives	6
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	6
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	6
Measuring constitutional loyalty	6
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	6
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	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	6
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	5
Individualism and racial tolerance	5
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	5
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	5

Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	5
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	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
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	5
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	5
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	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
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	5
Nothing comes for free: the impact of place-based tax incentives on firms’ costs	5
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
Inequality and terrorism: a meta-regression analysis	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	4
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	4
Political central bank coverage	4
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	4
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	4
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	4
Home alone	4
How terrorism affects support for democracy	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 political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	4
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	4
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	4
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	4
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	4