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June 2020, Volume 183, Issue 3
- 371-387 James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future
by Randall G. Holcombe - 389-403 Buchanan at the American Founding: the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals
by John Meadowcroft - 405-416 Academia in Anarchy: 50 years on
by Joshua C. Hall - 417-441 The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory
by Phillip W. Magness - 443-459 Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science
by Diana W. Thomas & Michael D. Thomas - 461-477 Rediscovering Buchanan’s rediscovery: non-market exchange versus antiseptic allocation
by Nicolás Cachanosky & Edward J. Lopez - 479-494 The subjectivist-contrarian position
by Adam Martin - 495-507 Can a contractarian be a paternalist? The logic of James M. Buchanan’s system
by Mario J. Rizzo & Malte F. Dold - 509-521 Moral community and moral order: Buchanan’s theory of obligation
by Michael Munger
April 2020, Volume 183, Issue 1
- 3-27 Legislative bargaining with costly communication
by Anna Merkel & Christoph Vanberg - 29-41 Can a deportation policy backfire?
by Oded Stark & Lukasz Byra - 43-68 Electoral cycles, partisan effects and US naturalization policies
by Marcus Drometer & Romuald Méango - 69-99 Common pool effects and local public debt in amalgamated municipalities
by Benedikt Fritz & Lars P. Feld - 101-132 On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels
by Roger D. Congleton & Youngshin Kim & Alexander Marsella - 133-149 The failure of a Nazi “killer” amendment
by Andreas Kleiner & Benny Moldovanu - 151-185 Extensions of the Simpson voting rule to the committee selection setting
by Daniela Bubboloni & Mostapha Diss & Michele Gori - 187-210 Measuring majority power and veto power of voting rules
by Aleksei Y. Kondratev & Alexander S. Nesterov - 211-214 Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke, and Vlad Tarko: Public governance and the classical-liberal perspective: political economy foundations
by Alexander William Salter - 215-217 Pierre Salmon: Yardstick Competition among Governments: Accountability and Policymaking when Citizens Look Across Borders
by Joan Costa-Font - 219-222 Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama, Persecution and toleration: the long road to religious freedom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, xiv + 354 pp, USD 29.99 (paperback)
by Vincent Geloso
March 2020, Volume 182, Issue 3
- 233-242 Introduction: a symposium on the predatory state
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 243-271 A theory of predatory welfare state and citizen welfare: the French case
by Mehrdad Vahabi & Philippe Batifoulier & Nicolas Silva - 273-286 Regulating quack medicine
by Peter T. Leeson & M. Scott King & Tate J. Fegley - 287-301 Progressive Democracy: the ideology of the modern predatory state
by Randall G. Holcombe - 303-329 The development and evolution of predatory-state institutions and organizations: beliefs, violence, conquest, coercion, and rent seeking
by Bruce L. Benson - 331-352 Productive specialization, peaceful cooperation and the problem of the predatory state: lessons from comparative historical political economy
by Peter J. Boettke & Rosolino A. Candela - 353-371 Wealth-destroying states
by Jennifer Murtazashvili & Ilia Murtazashvili - 373-394 Why did pre-modern states adopt Big-God religions?
by Stergios Skaperdas & Samarth Vaidya - 395-416 Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation
by Timur Kuran - 417-442 State predation in historical perspective: the case of Ottoman müsadere practice during 1695–1839
by Yasin Arslantaş & Antoine Pietri & Mehrdad Vahabi - 443-457 Two bandits or more? The case of Viking Age England
by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen - 459-494 Trade and the predatory state: Ricardian exchange with armed competition for resources—a diagrammatic exposition
by Martin C. McGuire - 495-508 Pareto-minimality in the jungle
by Bertrand Crettez
January 2020, Volume 182, Issue 1
- 1-16 Better the devil you know? Reelected politicians and policy outcomes under no term limits
by Fernando Aragón & Ricardo Pique - 17-48 Ideology or voters? A quasi-experimental test of why left-wing governments spend more
by Benoît Le Maux & Kristýna Dostálová & Fabio Padovano - 49-72 Unpacking the unknown: a method for identifying status quo distributions
by Ryan J. Vander Wielen & Michael J. Vander Wielen - 73-91 Politicians’ coherence and government debt
by Giorgio Bellettini & Paolo Roberti - 93-117 Silent promotion of agendas: campaign contributions and ideological polarization
by Hideo Konishi & Chen-Yu Pan - 119-137 Selecting the runoff pair
by James Green-Armytage & T. Nicolaus Tideman - 139-155 Rent seeking as an evolving process: the case of the Ancien Régime
by Robert B. Ekelund & Mark Thornton - 157-157 Correction to: Rent seeking as an evolving process: the case of the Ancien Régime
by Robert B. Ekelund & Mark Thornton - 159-180 Psychological game theory in public choice
by Gregory DeAngelo & Bryan C. McCannon - 181-199 A study of triggering events: When do political regimes change?
by Martin Paldam - 201-227 Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method
by Jarosław Flis & Wojciech Słomczyński & Dariusz Stolicki - 229-232 Michael C. Munger: Tomorrow 3.0: transaction costs and the sharing economy
by Diana W. Thomas
December 2019, Volume 181, Issue 3
- 191-213 The effects of decentralization on special interest groups
by Robert F. Salvino & Gregory M. Randolph & Geoffrey K. Turnbull & Michael T. Tasto - 215-238 Government ideology and monetary policy in OECD countries
by Dodge Cahan & Luisa Doerr & Niklas Potrafke - 239-273 Did the fed raise interest rates before elections?
by Alexander Dentler - 275-289 The Coleman–Shapley index: being decisive within the coalition of the interested
by André Casajus & Frank Huettner - 291-308 Political change and turnovers: How do political principals consider organizational, individual, and performance information?
by Bong Hwan Kim & Sounman Hong - 309-330 Fairness and qualitative portfolio allocation in multiparty governments
by Alejandro Ecker & Thomas M. Meyer - 331-349 The effect of incumbency on ideological and valence perceptions of parties in multilevel polities
by Susumu Shikano & Dominic Nyhuis - 351-373 Bargaining in legislatures over private and public goods with endogenous recognition
by Hakan Genc & Serkan Kucuksenel - 375-397 An economic theory of economic analysis: the case of the School of Salamanca
by Clara Jace - 399-422 Identifiability, state repression, and the onset of ethnic conflict
by Christine S. Mele & David A. Siegel
October 2019, Volume 181, Issue 1
- 1-4 Rent seeking at 52: an introduction to a special issue of public choice
by Matthew D. Mitchell - 5-12 On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft
by Roger D. Congleton - 13-28 Rents and economic development: the perspective of Why Nations Fail
by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - 29-47 Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep
by Federica Carugati & Josiah Ober & Barry R. Weingast - 49-69 Measuring rent-seeking
by David N. Laband & John P. Sophocleus - 71-82 Rent-seeking in the classroom and textbooks: Where are we after 50 years?
by Joshua Hall & Josh Matti & Amir B. Ferreira Neto - 83-100 Tullock and the welfare costs of corruption: there is a “political Coase Theorem”
by Michael C. Munger - 101-126 A culture of rent seeking
by Seung Ginny Choi & Virgil Henry Storr - 127-139 Transitional gains and rent extraction
by Randall G. Holcombe - 141-166 The efficiency of regulatory arbitrage
by Vlad Tarko & Andrew Farrant - 167-190 Uncontestable favoritism
by Matthew D. Mitchell
September 2019, Volume 180, Issue 3
- 191-215 Do sanctions lead to a decline in civil liberties?
by Antonis Adam & Sofia Tsarsitalidou - 217-242 An empirical examination of institutions and cross-country incarceration rates
by Daniel J. D’Amico & Claudia R. Williamson - 243-256 Adaptation and central banking
by Alexander W. Salter & William J. Luther - 257-283 Is civic duty the solution to the paradox of voting?
by Abel François & Olivier Gergaud - 285-300 The incumbent’s preference for imperfect commitment
by Matthias Wrede - 301-331 Political regimes and publicly provided goods: why democracy needs development
by Martin Roessler - 333-352 Electoral systems and trade-policy outcomes: the effects of personal-vote incentives on barriers to international trade
by Patrick Wagner & Michael Plouffe - 353-381 Is the market for digital privacy a failure?
by Caleb S. Fuller - 383-405 Sabotage in team contests
by Serhat Doğan & Kerim Keskin & Çağrı Sağlam - 407-427 Intra-party politics and interest groups: missing links in explaining government effectiveness
by Andrea Ceron & Luigi Curini & Fedra Negri - 429-449 Elections, recession expectations and excessive debt: an unholy trinity
by Frank Bohn & Francisco José Veiga - 451-467 Crowdfunding defense
by Garrett R. Wood - 469-500 “Mao’s last revolution”: a dictator’s loyalty–competence tradeoff
by Ying Bai & Titi Zhou - 501-503 Randall G. Holcombe: Political capitalism: how economic and political power is made and maintained
by Bryan P. Cutsinger - 505-509 Milan Vaishnav, When crime pays: money and muscle in Indian politics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xxiii + 410 pages. USD 40.00 (cloth)
by Shruti Rajagopalan
July 2019, Volume 180, Issue 1
- 1-10 Regressive effects of regulation
by Diana W. Thomas - 11-25 Reapplying behavioral symmetry: public choice and choice architecture
by Michael David Thomas - 27-42 Do the poor want to be regulated? Public opinion surveys on regulation in the United States, 1981–2002
by Jeremy Horpedahl - 43-55 RegData 2.2: a panel dataset on US federal regulations
by Patrick A. McLaughlin & Oliver Sherouse - 57-90 How do federal regulations affect consumer prices? An analysis of the regressive effects of regulation
by Dustin Chambers & Courtney A. Collins & Alan Krause - 91-103 Regressive effects of regulation on wages
by James B. Bailey & Diana W. Thomas & Joseph R. Anderson - 105-130 Stratification by regulation: Are bootleggers and Baptists biased?
by Sean E. Mulholland - 131-144 Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states
by Dustin Chambers & Patrick A. McLaughlin & Laura Stanley - 145-164 Banking regulation, regulatory capture and inequality
by G. P. Manish & Colin O’Reilly - 165-190 Barriers to prosperity: the harmful impact of entry regulations on income inequality
by Dustin Chambers & Patrick A. McLaughlin & Laura Stanley
June 2019, Volume 179, Issue 3
- 169-174 Strategic and experimental analyses of conflict and terrorism
by Timothy Mathews & Shane Sanders - 175-194 The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
by Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson & Roman M. Sheremeta - 195-208 Valuation structure in incomplete information contests: experimental evidence
by Diego Aycinena & Rimvydas Baltaduonis & Lucas Rentschler - 209-228 A game-theoretic analysis of international trade and political conflict over external territories
by Yang-Ming Chang & Manaf Sellak - 229-248 A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers
by Aniruddha Bagchi & João Ricardo Faria & Timothy Mathews - 249-266 The role of noise in alliance formation and collusion in conflicts
by James W. Boudreau & Shane Sanders & Nicholas Shunda - 267-285 Stag hunt contests and alliance formation
by James W. Boudreau & Lucas Rentschler & Shane Sanders - 287-299 Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker–defender interactions
by Timothy Mathews & Aniruddha Bagchi & João Ricardo Faria - 301-313 A model of terrorism and counterterrorism with location choices
by Yang Jiao & Zijun Luo
April 2019, Volume 179, Issue 1
- 1-6 Introduction to a special issue in honor of Kenneth Arrow
by Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 7-40 Weak rationalizability and Arrovian impossibility theorems for responsive social choice
by John Duggan - 41-49 Social welfare with net utilities
by Jon X. Eguia & Dimitrios Xefteris - 51-95 Exploring the effects of national and regional popular vote Interstate compact on a toy symmetric version of the Electoral College: an electoral engineering perspective
by Olivier Mouzon & Thibault Laurent & Michel Breton & Dominique Lepelley - 97-111 Why Arrow’s theorem matters for political theory even if preference cycles never occur
by Sean Ingham - 113-124 Reflections on Arrow’s theorem and voting rules
by Nicholas R. Miller - 125-131 Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields
by Wulf Gaertner - 133-144 Arrow, and unexpected consequences of his theorem
by Donald G. Saari - 145-164 A defense of Arrow’s independence of irrelevant alternatives
by John W. Patty & Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 165-167 Remembering Kenneth Arrow: discount rates
by Kenneth A. Shepsle
March 2019, Volume 178, Issue 3
- 319-327 Affinity, arming, consequences, and perceptions: an introduction
by Todd Sandler - 329-347 Terrorism and affinity of nations
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Todd Sandler - 349-369 Problems of commitment in arming and war: how insecurity and destruction matter
by Michelle R. Garfinkel & Constantinos Syropoulos - 371-396 On the human consequences of terrorism
by Daniel G. Arce - 397-416 UN involvement and civil war peace agreement implementation
by Wakako Maekawa & Barış Arı & Theodora-Ismene Gizelis - 417-443 Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories
by James A. Piazza - 445-471 Security policy preferences of EU citizens: Do terrorist events affect them?
by Athina Economou & Christos Kollias - 473-492 Violence and the perception of risk associated with hosting refugees
by Alex Braithwaite & Tiffany S. Chu & Justin Curtis & Faten Ghosn - 493-512 Terrorism and subjective financial well-being: micro-level evidence from Pakistan
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Gerel Oyun & Javed Younas
January 2019, Volume 178, Issue 1
- 3-30 Valuable legacy? The effect of inherited fiscal rules
by Csaba G. Tóth - 31-52 Evolving hierarchical preferences and behavioral economic policies
by Jan Schnellenbach - 53-65 The elimination paradox: apportionment in the Democratic Party
by Michael A. Jones & David McCune & Jennifer Wilson - 67-93 Multiwinner approval voting: an apportionment approach
by Steven J. Brams & D. Marc Kilgour & Richard F. Potthoff - 95-114 Titles for me but not for thee: transitional gains trap of property rights extension in Colombia
by Perry Ferrell - 115-151 Candidate competition and voter learning in the 2000–2012 US presidential primaries
by George Deltas & Mattias K. Polborn - 153-178 Regulation and government debt
by Niclas Berggren & Christian Bjørnskov - 179-195 How robust is the welfare state when facing open borders? An evolutionary game-theoretic model
by Urs Steiner Brandt & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen - 197-216 Beyond market failure and government failure
by Glenn Furton & Adam Martin - 217-230 Land lotteries, long-term wealth, and political selection
by Jason Poulos - 231-265 A banana republic? The effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior
by Niklas Potrafke & Felix Roesel - 267-287 Collective decision-making of voters with heterogeneous levels of rationality
by Youzong Xu - 289-309 State capacity and public choice: a critical survey
by Ennio E. Piano - 311-313 Matthew S. Shugart and Rein Taagepera: Votes from seats: logical models of electoral systems
by Kenneth Bunker - 315-317 Evan Osborne: Self-regulation and human progress: how society gains when we govern less
by Liya Palagashvili
December 2018, Volume 177, Issue 3
- 189-197 Public choice as positive economics. Introduction to the special issue honoring Francesco Forte
by Silvia Fedeli - 199-216 Constitutional political economy, democratic theory and institutional design
by Georg Vanberg - 217-233 An economic theory of a hybrid (competitive authoritarian or illiberal) regime
by Ronald Wintrobe - 235-264 Coercion and equity with centralization of government: how the unification of Italy impacted the southern regions
by Giorgio Brosio - 265-285 Bureaucratic institutional design: the case of the Italian NHS
by Silvia Fedeli & Leone Leonida & Michele Santoni - 287-299 Public debt stabilization: the relevance of policymakers’ time horizons
by Giovanni Di Bartolomeo & Marco Di Pietro & Enrico Saltari & Willi Semmler - 301-317 Introduction to welfare economics
by Francesco Forte
October 2018, Volume 177, Issue 1
- 1-27 Overlapping political budget cycles
by Dirk Foremny & Ronny Freier & Marc-Daniel Moessinger & Mustafa Yeter - 29-51 Bargaining and the effectiveness of economic development incentives: an evaluation of the Texas chapter 313 program
by Nathan M. Jensen - 53-66 Complete information pivotal-voter model with asymmetric group size
by Christos Mavridis & Marco Serena - 67-86 Fast, frugal and correct? An experimental study on the influence of time scarcity and quantity of information on the voter decision making process
by Michal Tóth & Roman Chytilek - 87-109 Rank effects in political promotions
by Jaakko Meriläinen & Janne Tukiainen - 111-133 Does corruption throw sand into or grease the wheels of financial sector development?
by Arusha Cooray & Friedrich Schneider - 135-154 A capture theory of committees
by Alvaro J. Name-Correa & Huseyin Yildirim - 155-164 The effect of democratic decision-making on investment in reputation
by Ruth Ben-Yashar & Miriam Krausz & Shmuel Nitzan - 165-187 Arm your friends and save on defense? The impact of arms exports on military expenditures
by Oliver Pamp & Florian Dendorfer & Paul W. Thurner
September 2018, Volume 176, Issue 3
- 341-359 Candidate valence in a spatial model with entry
by Dimitrios Xefteris - 361-387 Who does better for the economy? Presidents versus parliamentary democracies
by Richard McManus & F. Gulcin Ozkan - 389-403 Extreme idealism and equilibrium in the Hotelling–Downs model of political competition
by David Ronayne - 405-440 Place of registration and place of residence: the non-linear detrimental impact of transportation cost on electoral participation
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar & Abel François - 441-460 Spoiler effects in proportional representation systems: evidence from eight Polish parliamentary elections, 1991–2015
by Marek M. Kaminski - 461-478 A mixed-utility theory of vote choice regret
by Damien Bol & André Blais & Jean-François Laslier - 479-506 The lightship in economics
by Rosolino A. Candela & Vincent J. Geloso - 507-528 Court-ordered redistricting and the law of 1/n
by Dongwon Lee & Sangwon Park - 529-555 Money as meta-rule: Buchanan’s constitutional economics as a foundation for monetary stability
by Peter J. Boettke & Alexander W. Salter & Daniel J. Smith - 557-565 The Shapley value analyzed under the Felsenthal and Machover bargaining model
by Giulia Bernardi & Josep Freixas - 567-571 Peter Bernholz: Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values: History and Theory
by Arye L. Hillman - 573-573 Correction to: Policy-specific alienation and indifference in the calculus of voting: a simultaneous model of party choice and abstention
by Paul W. Thurner & Angelika Eymann
July 2018, Volume 176, Issue 1
- 1-5 Introduction to the issue in honor of Keith T. Poole
by Howard Rosenthal - 7-15 37 years with Keith T. Poole
by Howard Rosenthal - 17-32 The new Voteview.com: preserving and continuing Keith Poole’s infrastructure for scholars, students and observers of Congress
by Adam Boche & Jeffrey B. Lewis & Aaron Rudkin & Luke Sonnet - 33-55 A two-dimensional analysis of seventy years of United Nations voting
by Michael A. Bailey & Erik Voeten - 57-78 What Ordered Optimal Classification reveals about ideological structure, cleavages, and polarization in the American mass public
by Christopher Hare & Tzu-Ping Liu & Robert N. Lupton - 79-106 Saying versus doing: a new donation method for measuring ideal points
by Nicholas Haas & Rebecca B. Morton - 107-132 Southern realignment, party sorting, and the polarization of American primary electorates, 1958–2012
by Seth J. Hill & Chris Tausanovitch - 133-151 The ideological nationalization of partisan subconstituencies in the American States
by Devin Caughey & James Dunham & Christopher Warshaw - 153-174 Dynamic estimation of ideal points for the US Congress
by Brandon Marshall & Michael Peress - 175-192 Candidate ideology and electoral success in congressional elections
by Jamie L. Carson & Ryan D. Williamson - 193-210 Polarized preferences versus polarizing policies
by Sanford C. Gordon & Dimitri Landa - 211-228 Is there a selection bias in roll call votes? Evidence from the European Parliament
by Simon Hix & Abdul Noury & Gerard Roland - 229-246 Dynamic ideal point estimation for the European Parliament, 1980–2009
by James Lo - 247-265 Polarization and ideological congruence between parties and supporters in Europe
by Royce Carroll & Hiroki Kubo - 267-296 Multidimensional incongruence and vote switching in Europe
by Ryan Bakker & Seth Jolly & Jonathan Polk - 297-314 External validation of voter turnout models by concealed parameter recovery
by Antonio Merlo & Thomas R. Palfrey - 315-340 The problem of polarization
by Robert Grafstein
June 2018, Volume 175, Issue 3
- 219-228 Rules versus authorities
by Marianne Johnson - 229-244 Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees
by Roger D. Congleton - 245-257 Public choice and political science: a view from Europe
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 259-275 Distributive politics and congressional voting: public lands reform in the Jacksonian era
by Sean Gailmard & Jeffery A. Jenkins - 277-302 Profiling giants: the networks and influence of Buchanan and Tullock
by Etienne Farvaque & Frédéric Gannon - 303-323 Shades of red and blue: government ideology and sustainable development
by Toke S. Aidt & Vitor Castro & Rodrigo Martins - 325-345 Political realism and models of the state: Antonio de Viti de Marco and the origins of public choice
by Michele G. Giuranno & Manuela Mosca - 347-366 Getting the message across: evaluating think tank influence in Congress
by Joshua Y. Lerner - 367-391 Government fragmentation and fiscal deficits: a regression discontinuity approach
by Joaquín Artés & Ignacio Jurado - 393-428 The resource curse literature as seen through the appropriability lens: a critical survey
by Mehrdad Vahabi
April 2018, Volume 175, Issue 1
- 1-18 Cost disease in defense and public administration: Baumol and politics
by Lars-Erik Borge & Kjetil Hatlebakk Hove & Tobias Lillekvelland & Per Tovmo - 19-36 Supermajority rule, the law of 1/n, and government spending: a synthesis
by Paul Pecorino - 37-62 The unpopularity of incentive-based instruments: what improves the cost–benefit ratio?
by Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen & Clau Dermont - 63-93 Youth bulges, insurrections and labor-market restrictions
by Thomas Apolte & Lena Gerling - 95-109 Self-imposition of public oversight
by Mark Gradstein - 111-134 How defense shapes the institutional organization of states
by Fabio Padovano & Yvon Rocaboy - 135-154 The political affiliation effect on state credit risk
by Darío Cestau - 155-179 The effect of valence and ideology in campaign conversion: panel evidence from three Spanish general elections
by Enrique García-Viñuela & Ignacio Jurado & Pedro Riera - 181-196 Protest and property crime: political use of police resources and the deterrence of crime
by Jaewook Byeon & Iljoong Kim & Dongwon Lee