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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias	39
Public choice and public health	31
Globalization and populism in Europe	30
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	23
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	16
Political economy of financial crisis duration	15
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile	14
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	12
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910	11
On the nature and structure of externalities	11
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?	11
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers	11
Optimal lockdowns	10
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	9
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by	9
Government externalities	8
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	8
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
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis	8
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	8
Individualism and racial tolerance	8
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival	8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	8
Public health and expert failure	7

What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	7
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	7
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	7
Novel externalities	7
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences	7
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism	6
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country	6
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals	6
Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?	6
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	6
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	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
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	6
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	5
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia	5
Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business?	5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school	5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	5
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	5
Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia	5
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism	5
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	5
Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending	5
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	5
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime	5
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	5
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	5
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	4
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	4
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	4
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	4
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics	4
Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups	4
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice	4
Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo	4
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	3
Bureaucratic beliefs and law enforcement	3
Will quadratic voting produce optimal public policy?	3
Endogenous choice of institutional punishment mechanisms to promote social cooperation	3
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change	3
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	3

Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	3
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory	3
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons	3
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	3
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings	3
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos	3
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	3
Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited	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
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	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