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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	149
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	38
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	34
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	25
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	21
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	19
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	15
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	15
A reservation economic freedom index	14
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	12
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	12
Editorial announcement	12
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions	12
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	10
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	10
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	9
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	9
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	9
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	8
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	8
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	8

Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	7
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	7
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	7
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	7
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	7
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	7
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	6
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	6
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	6
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
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)	6
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	6
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	6
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	6
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	6
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	6
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Two cheers for humanomics	6
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel	6
Editorial announcement	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	5
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	5
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
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	5
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	5
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	5
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	5
The political economy of paternalism	5
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	4
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	4
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	4
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	4
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
Political competition and Chinese official data	4
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	4
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)	4

German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	4
The implementability of liberalism	3
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	3
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)	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
Political central bank coverage	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	3
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	3
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	3
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
Home alone	3
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3