Public Choice

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Culture, institutions and democratization*50
Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?34
Public choice and public health27
Globalization and populism in Europe23
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms20
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias15
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism15
Political economy of financial crisis duration14
New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities12
The rise of populist parties in the aftermath of a massive corruption scandal12
Where Chicago meets London: James M. Buchanan, Virginia Political Economy, and cost theory11
The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion: a public choice perspective11
Public expenditures and the risk of social dominance11
The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory10
Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship?10
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world10
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers10
The economic theory of regulation and inequality10
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?10
Legal corruption?10
Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 175510
Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries10
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 19109
J. M. Buchanan’s contractarian constitutionalism: political economy for democratic society9
Voting for the underdog or jumping on the bandwagon? Evidence from India’s exit poll ban8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life8
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–20178
Optimal lockdowns8
Buchanan at the American Founding: the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals8
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France7
James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion”7
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates7
The real purpose of the program: a case study in James M. Buchanan’s efforts at academic entrepreneurship to “save the books” in economics7
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits7
Marx after Kornai7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years7
Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots: coalitions in Arkansas’ alcohol-legalization elections7
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Janos Kornai: a non-mainstream pathway from economic planning to disequilibrium economics7
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile7
Public health and expert failure7
János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism7
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis7
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem7
Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism6
1956 in Hungary: as I saw it then and as I see it now6
The instability of globalization: applying evolutionary game theory to global trade cooperation6
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country6
Can a contractarian be a paternalist? The logic of James M. Buchanan’s system6
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?6
From subjectivism to constitutionalism: the intellectual journey of James M. Buchanan through his Italian heroes6
Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai6
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism6
Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures6
The gender wage gap: an analysis of US congressional staff members6
Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives6
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival6
Rally ’round which flag? Terrorism’s effect on (intra)national identity6
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests5
The broken bridge of public finance: majority rule, earmarked taxes and social engineering5
James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future5
The value of political connections in the post-transition period: evidence from Czechia5
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework5
Risk aversion in two-period rent-seeking games5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school5
Government externalities5
Moral community and moral order: Buchanan’s theory of obligation5
Droughts and corruption5
On the nature and structure of externalities5
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined5
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters5
Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country5
Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?5
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism5
In the land of OZ: designating opportunity zones5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom5
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by4
Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia4
Novel externalities4
Decomposing political advertising effects on vote choices4
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports4
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime4
How Buchanan’s concern for the South shaped his first academic works4
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties4
Party switching and political outcomes: evidence from Brazilian municipalities4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization4
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia4
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions4
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