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September 2011, Volume 148, Issue 3
- 459-470 Power comes with responsibility—or does it?
by Friedel Bolle & Claudia Vogel - 471-490 Government fragmentation versus fiscal decentralization and corruption
by Rajeev Goel & Michael Nelson - 491-503 Imposing a turnout threshold in referendums
by Yoichi Hizen & Masafumi Shinmyo - 505-530 Oil and the duration of dictatorships
by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma & Harald Oberhofer & Paul Raschky - 531-546 Electoral accountability in a country with two-tiered government
by David Granlund - 547-559 Political competition and politician quality: evidence from Italian municipalities
by Maria Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa - 561-567 Monopoly vs. competition in light of extraction norms
by Arkadi Koziashvili & Shmuel Nitzan & Yossef Tobol - 569-594 Globalization, welfare regimes and social protection expenditures in Western and Eastern European countries
by Markus Leibrecht & Michael Klien & Oezlem Onaran - 595-610 Do electoral institutions have an impact on population health?
by Simon Wigley & Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley - 611-630 The political economy of the environmental criminal justice system: a production function approach
by Christian Almer & Timo Goeschl
July 2011, Volume 148, Issue 1
- 1-19 The proximity paradox: the legislative agenda and the electoral success of ideological extremists
by Justin Buchler - 21-44 Election results and opportunistic policies: A new test of the rational political business cycle model
by Toke Aidt & Francisco Veiga & Linda Veiga - 45-66 A theory of entangled political economy, with application to TARP and NRA
by Adam Smith & Richard Wagner & Bruce Yandle - 67-86 Condorcet Polling
by Richard Potthoff - 87-104 Securing the base: electoral competition under variable turnout
by Michael Peress - 105-117 Free riders, holdouts, and public use: a tale of two externalities
by Thomas Miceli - 119-148 Timely shirking: time-dependent monitoring and its effects on legislative behavior in the U.S. Senate
by René Lindstädt & Ryan Wielen - 149-161 Elections and the strategic use of budget deficits
by Roland Hodler - 163-196 Hold your nose and vote: corruption and public decisions in a representative democracy
by Marco Pani - 197-214 One-dimensionality and stability in legislative voting
by Thomas Schwartz - 215-232 Foreclosure in contests
by Derek Clark & Øystein Foros & Jan Sand - 233-247 Opportunistic and partisan election cycles in Brazil: new evidence at the municipal level
by Sergio Sakurai & Naercio Menezes-Filho - 249-257 Expressive voting and identity: evidence from a case study of a group of U.S. voters
by Arye Hillman - 259-261 Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson: Media, development and institutional change
by Daniel Sutter - 263-264 Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams: Experimental political science and the study of causality: from nature to the lab
by R. Isaac - 265-267 Francesco Forte: Principles of public economics: a public choice approach
by Randall Holcombe
June 2011, Volume 147, Issue 3
- 259-276 Two-stage group rent-seeking with negatively interdependent preferences
by Sina Risse - 277-284 On being asset-constrained in litigation contests
by Tim Friehe - 285-304 Negotiation in legislatures over government formation
by Michael Laver & Scott Marchi & Hande Mutlu - 305-329 Experimental comparison of two multiple-stage contest designs with asymmetric players
by Robin Chark & Amnon Rapoport & Rami Zwick - 331-357 Social divisions and institutions: assessing institutional parameter variation
by Ann-Sofie Isaksson - 359-376 The creation of multi-ethnic nations with or without a core region
by Ahmed Mahmud - 377-393 Corruption is bad for growth (even in the United States)
by Noel Johnson & Courtney LaFountain & Steven Yamarik - 395-412 The consequences of midnight regulations and other surges in regulatory activity
by Patrick McLaughlin - 413-420 A generalized Tullock contest
by Subhasish Chowdhury & Roman Sheremeta - 421-438 Three-candidate spatial competition when candidates have valence: stochastic voting
by Haldun Evrenk & Dmitriy Kha - 439-457 Special-interest groups and growth
by Dennis Coates & Jac Heckelman & Bonnie Wilson - 459-480 Strategic fiscal interaction among OECD countries
by Pantelis Kammas - 481-496 Why Muslims like democracy yet have so little of it
by Robbert Maseland & André Hoorn - 497-524 Rivalry and superior dispatch: an analysis of competing courts in medieval and early modern England
by Edward Stringham & Todd Zywicki - 525-525 Erratum to: Inward-looking policies, institutions, autocrats, and economic growth in Latin America: an empirical exploration
by Alberto Chong & Luisa Zanforlin - 527-527 Erratum to: Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
by César Calderón & Alberto Chong - 529-529 Erratum to: Can foreign aid reduce income inequality and poverty?
by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein & Cecilia Calderon - 531-531 Erratum to: Political and institutional environment and privatization prices
by Alberto Chong & Jorge Guillen & Alejandro Riano
April 2011, Volume 147, Issue 1
- 3-27 What causes terrorism?
by Tim Krieger & Daniel Meierrieks - 29-41 An interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on voluntary contributions to a public good in a large economy
by Makoto Kakinaka & Koji Kotani - 43-67 Political fragmentation, party ideology and public expenditures
by Benoît Maux & Yvon Rocaboy & Timothy Goodspeed - 69-91 Local government structure and the quality of minority neighborhoods
by Keith Ihlanfeldt - 93-106 Winner-pay contests
by Andrew Yates - 107-121 An empirical study of the consolidation of local public health services in Connecticut
by Laurie Bates & Becky Lafrancois & Rexford Santerre - 123-138 The decision to lobby bureaucrats
by Amy McKay - 139-154 Partisan conflicts and parliamentary dominance: the Norwegian political business cycle
by Leif Helland - 155-171 City-level analysis of the effect of political regimes on public good provision
by Sarani Saha - 173-188 The public finance of healthy behavior
by Robert Rosenman - 189-207 Does legislative turnover adversely affect state expenditure policy? Evidence from Indian state elections
by Yogesh Uppal - 209-225 Determinants of congressional minimum wage support: the role of economic education
by J. O’Roark & William Wood - 227-253 Appropriation, violent enforcement, and transaction costs: a critical survey
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 255-257 Gil DeLannoi and Oliver Dowlen, eds: Sortition: Theory and Practice
by Alan Lockard
March 2011, Volume 146, Issue 3
- 269-289 Federalism and the shadow economy
by Désirée Teobaldelli - 291-317 Working or shirking? Expenses and attendance in the UK Parliament
by Timothy Besley & Valentino Larcinese - 319-339 The estimated cost impact of privatizing student transportation in Minnesota school districts
by Owen Thompson - 341-351 Trading places
by Ryan Yonk & Randy Simmons & Derek Johnson - 353-374 The price of transparency: do campaign finance disclosure laws discourage political participation by citizens’ groups?
by Alexandre Couture Gagnon & Filip Palda - 375-394 Executive veto power and credit claiming
by Indridi Indridason - 395-411 Theory and evidence of municipal borrowing in Chile
by Leonardo Letelier S. - 413-442 A decade of dissent: explaining the dissent voting behavior of Bank of England MPC members
by Mark Harris & Paul Levine & Christopher Spencer - 443-467 Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations?
by Bernhard Boockmann & Axel Dreher - 469-499 Campaign allocations under probabilistic voting
by Deborah Fletcher & Steven Slutsky - 501-520 Self-enforcing norms and efficient non-cooperative collective action in the provision of public goods
by Kai Konrad & Wolfgang Leininger
January 2011, Volume 146, Issue 1
- 1-8 In memoriam: Melvin J. Hinich, 1939–2010
by Peter Ordeshook & Michael Munger & Tse-min Lin & Bryan Jones - 9-21 Social or political cleavages? A spatial analysis of the party system in post-authoritarian Chile
by Claudio Bonilla & Ryan Carlin & Gregory Love & Ernesto Silva Méndez - 23-41 Economic growth with endogenous corruption: an empirical study
by Mushfiq Swaleheen - 43-73 Public employment and income redistribution: causal evidence for Brazilian municipalities
by Enlinson Mattos & Vitor França - 75-92 Does tenure in office affect regional growth? The role of public capital productivity
by María García-Vega & José Herce - 93-115 Political regime change, economic liberalization and growth accelerations
by Richard Jong-A-Pin & Jakob Haan - 117-143 The road to power: partisan loyalty and the centralized provision of local infrastructure
by Marcelin Joanis - 145-162 Loyalty and competence in public agencies
by Alexander Wagner - 163-183 Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries
by Antonis Adam & Manthos Delis & Pantelis Kammas - 185-203 How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
by Loukas Balafoutas - 205-256 Positive constitutional economics II—a survey of recent developments
by Stefan Voigt - 257-259 William A. Fischel: Making the grade: the economic evolution of American school districts
by Joshua Hall - 261-263 Woody Holton: Unruly Americans and the origins of the constitution
by Robert Cooper - 265-267 Edward J. Lopez (ed.): The pursuit of justice: law and economics of legal institutions
by Claudia Williamson
December 2010, Volume 145, Issue 3
- 331-337 Save the poor, shoot some bankers
by David Zetland - 339-349 Risk-aversion and prudence in rent-seeking games
by Nicolas Treich - 351-378 On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries
by Thushyanthan Baskaran - 379-403 An auction market for journal articles
by Jens Prüfer & David Zetland - 405-416 Individual campaign contributions in a Downsian model: expressive and instrumental motives
by Shiou Shieh & Wan-Hsiang Pan - 417-433 Why candidate divergence should be expected to be just as great (or even greater) in competitive seats as in non-competitive ones
by James Adams & Thomas Brunell & Bernard Grofman & Samuel Merrill - 435-460 Freedom of information acts and public sector corruption
by Monica Escaleras & Shu Lin & Charles Register - 461-482 The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece
by Daniel D’Amico - 483-502 The invisible hand plays dice: multiple equilibria in sects markets
by Panu Poutvaara & Andreas Wagener - 503-530 Fiscal policy responsiveness, persistence, and discretion
by António Afonso & Luca Agnello & Davide Furceri - 531-546 Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision
by Klaas Staal - 547-569 May increased partisanship lead to convergence of parties’ policy platforms?
by Tomer Blumkin & Volker Grossmann - 571-573 Reply to Miller on agendas and sincerity
by Thomas Schwartz - 575-579 Agendas and sincerity: a second response to Schwartz
by Nicholas Miller - 581-583 Emily Chamlee-Wright: The cultural and political economy of recovery: social learning in a post-disaster environment
by Art Carden - 585-587 Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy
by Roger Congleton - 589-592 Peter T. Leeson: The invisible hook: the hidden economics of pirates
by Bruce Benson
October 2010, Volume 145, Issue 1
- 1-24 What determines UN approval of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries?
by Florens Flues & Axel Michaelowa & Katharina Michaelowa - 25-38 Do high taxes lock-in capital gains? Evidence from a dual income tax system
by Sven-Olov Daunfeldt & Ulrika Praski-Ståhlgren & Niklas Rudholm - 39-55 Sizing the government
by Kristof Witte & Wim Moesen - 57-79 Do state balanced budget requirements matter? Testing two explanatory frameworks
by Yilin Hou & Daniel Smith - 81-101 Politician preferences, law-abiding lobbyists and caps on political contributions
by Ivan Pastine & Tuvana Pastine - 103-124 Flexible pensions for politicians
by Hans Gersbach & Markus Müller - 125-135 The relationship between corruption and income inequality in U.S. states: evidence from a panel cointegration and error correction model
by Nicholas Apergis & Oguzhan Dincer & James Payne - 137-163 A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
by Laszlo Goerke & Markus Pannenberg & Heinrich Ursprung - 165-180 Habit formation, strategic extremism, and debt policy
by Egil Matsen & Øystein Thøgersen - 181-195 Nation states vs. united empire: Effects of political competition on economic growth
by Angus Chu - 197-211 Political short-termism: a possible explanation
by Iconio Garrì - 213-221 Agenda trees and sincere voting: a response to Schwartz
by Nicholas Miller - 223-252 Public servants in parliament: theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
by Thomas Braendle & Alois Stutzer - 253-264 It’s all ‘bad’ news! Voters’ perception of macroeconomic policy competence
by Joshy Easaw - 265-280 Robust satisficing voting: why are uncertain voters biased towards sincerity?
by Lior Davidovitch & Yakov Ben-Haim - 281-293 Private operation with public supervision: evidence of hybrid modes of governance in prisons
by Sandro Cabral & Sergio Lazzarini & Paulo Azevedo - 295-317 The ‘informal sector’ and the political economy of development
by Victor Tanaka - 319-320 Mark Armstrong and Robert H. Porter (eds.): Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume 3
by Friedrich Schneider - 321-322 Karl-Göran Mäler and Jeffrey R. Vincent (eds.): Handbook of Environmental Economics: Valuing Environmental Changes, Volume 2
by Friedrich Schneider - 323-324 Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley (eds.): Handbook of Defense Economics, Volume 2
by Friedrich Schneider - 325-328 George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton: Identity economics. How our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being
by Andreas Kyriacou - 329-330 Charles H. Anderton, John R. Carter: Principles of conflict economics: a primer for social scientists
by Yvon Rocaboy
September 2010, Volume 144, Issue 3
- 393-399 Gebhard Kirchgässner, 60 years on
by Lars Feld & Marcel Savioz & Jan Schnellenbach - 401-411 The economic tradition and the constitution of science
by Hans Albert - 413-443 The scientific foundation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models
by Paul Grauwe - 445-457 Central bank independence and inflation revisited
by Jeroen Klomp & Jakob Haan - 459-472 M3 money demand and excess liquidity in the euro area
by Christian Dreger & Jürgen Wolters - 473-486 Turnover of organized crime and money laundering: some preliminary empirical findings
by Friedrich Schneider - 487-503 Sticking to fiscal plans: the role of institutions
by Jürgen Hagen - 505-534 Political stability and fiscal policy: time series evidence for the Swiss federal level since 1849
by Lars Feld & Christoph Schaltegger - 535-555 The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence
by Roger Congleton & Feler Bose - 557-573 Happiness and public choice
by Bruno Frey & Alois Stutzer
July 2010, Volume 144, Issue 1
- 1-36 Information, institutions and constitutional arrangements
by Abhinay Muthoo & Kenneth Shepsle - 37-51 Policy errors in executive and legislative decision-making
by Randall Holcombe & Dmitry Ryvkin - 53-62 Ideological externalities, social pressures, and political parties
by Amihai Glazer - 63-81 Referendum design, quorum rules and turnout
by Luís Aguiar-Conraria & Pedro Magalhães - 83-104 Chaotic shop-talk or efficient parliament? The Reichstag, the parties, and the problem of governmental instability in the Weimar Republic
by Sibylle Lehmann - 105-118 Terrorism, key assets, and critical infrastructures: to protect or to rebuild? That is the question
by Bertrand Crettez & Regis Deloche - 119-131 The Marquis de Condorcet goes to Bern
by Daniel Bochsler - 133-151 Susceptibility to coalitional strategic sponsoring
by Boniface Mbih & Sébastien Courtin & Issofa Moyouwou - 153-168 Uncertain candidates, valence, and the dynamics of candidate position-taking
by Michael Bruter & Robert Erikson & Aaron Strauss - 169-197 Structuring international institutions for the efficient provisioning of global security
by Rupayan Gupta - 199-214 Desperation votes and private interests: an analysis of Confederate trade legislation
by Robert Ekelund & John Jackson & Mark Thornton - 215-238 Corruption and the shadow economy: an empirical analysis
by Axel Dreher & Friedrich Schneider - 239-251 Indicators of electoral victory
by Pablo Amorós & M. Puy - 253-274 Expectations of government’s response to disaster
by Emily Chamlee-Wright & Virgil Storr - 275-291 Lobbying and (de)centralization
by Michele Ruta - 293-321 Local autonomy, tax morale, and the shadow economy
by Benno Torgler & Friedrich Schneider & Christoph Schaltegger - 323-346 How does social trust lead to better governance? An attempt to separate electoral and bureaucratic mechanisms
by Christian Bjørnskov - 347-367 Less fighting than expected
by Hannah Hörisch & Oliver Kirchkamp - 369-387 Interaction between federal taxation and horizontal tax competition: theory and evidence from Canada
by Leonzio Rizzo - 389-392 Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast: Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
by Randall Holcombe
June 2010, Volume 143, Issue 3
- 263-268 Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful: Elinor Ostrom and the diversity of institutions
by Michael Munger - 269-273 Elinor Ostrom and the “just right” solution
by John Aldrich - 275-282 In the woods: darkness at noon or Sunday in the park with Lin?
by Thráinn Eggertsson - 283-291 Is the only form of ‘reasonable regulation’ self regulation?: Lessons from Lin Ostrom on regulating the commons and cultivating citizens
by Peter Boettke - 293-301 Foundations of the Ostrom workshop: institutional analysis, polycentricity, and self-governance of the commons
by Michael McGinnis & James Walker - 303-308 Lin Ostrom’s Contribution to Economics: A Personal Evaluation
by Bruno Frey - 309-315 A Noble prize in practical politics: Elinor Ostrom
by Mark Lichbach - 317-324 Common-property resources: privatization, centralization, and hybrid arrangements
by Todd Sandler - 325-326 Elinor Ostrom and the commons
by Robert Tollison - 327-333 Elinor Ostrom’s contributions to the experimental study of social dilemmas
by T. Ahn & Rick Wilson - 335-337 Elinor Ostrom: uncommon
by Kenneth Shepsle - 339-352 Exit, collective action and polycentric political systems
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
April 2010, Volume 143, Issue 1
- 3-22 Strategic entry deterrence and terrorism: Theory and experimental evidence
by John Cadigan & Pamela Schmitt - 23-47 State aid programs for equalizing spending across local school districts: does the structure of the program matter, or only it’s size?
by Vincent Munley & Mary Harris - 49-65 Intra-industry trade and protectionism: the case of the buy national policy
by Dong-Hun Kim - 67-101 Democracy and dictatorship revisited
by José Cheibub & Jennifer Gandhi & James Vreeland - 103-120 Government growth and private contributions to charity
by Thomas Garrett & Russell Rhine - 121-133 Dilatory or anticipatory? Voting on the Journal in the House of Representatives
by John Patty - 135-155 Does government ideology influence deregulation of product markets? Empirical evidence from OECD countries
by Niklas Potrafke - 157-172 Merged municipalities, higher debt: on free-riding and the common pool problem in politics
by Henrik Jordahl & Che-Yuan Liang - 173-189 Fiscal decentralization and the size of government: a European country empirical analysis
by Aurélie Cassette & Sonia Paty - 191-208 Language nuances, trust and economic growth
by Alberto Chong & Jorge Guillen & Vanessa Rios - 209-227 Eminent domain power and afterwards: Leviathan’s post-taking opportunism
by Iljoong Kim & Sungkyu Park - 229-236 Gauging the potential for social unrest
by Oded Stark & Walter Hyll & Doris Behrens - 237-254 Varying the intensity of competition in a multiple prize rent seeking experiment
by Lisa Anderson & Beth Freeborn - 255-256 Erratum to: Varying the intensity of competition in a multiple prize rent seeking experiment
by Lisa Anderson & Beth Freeborn - 257-258 Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds): Handbook of the economics of art and culture
by Friedrich Schneider - 259-261 Annick Laruelle and Federico Valenciano: Voting and collective decision-making: bargaining and power
by Jean-Michel Josselin
March 2010, Volume 142, Issue 3
- 261-264 Robert D. Tollison, 65 years on
by William Shughart - 265-277 Determinants of publication productivity: an empirical analysis
by Nicole Crain & W. Crain - 279-291 Do differences in presidential economic advisers matter?
by Brian Goff - 293-295 Considering the council’s counsel: Advisor influence and political change
by John Sullivan - 297-313 The progress of the betting in a baseball game
by Raymond Sauer & J. Waller & Jahn Hakes - 315-321 The progress of the betting in a baseball game: A comment
by Chad Turner & Gōkhan Karahan - 323-334 Chivalry in golf?
by Robert McCormick & Robert Tollison - 335-337 On chivalry in golf
by Frank Limehouse - 339-353 National TV broadcasting and the rise of the regulatory state
by Bruce Yandle - 355-361 Television, code law, and integrated markets
by Melissa Yeoh - 363-377 Deregulation redux: does mandating access to bottleneck facilities necessarily improve welfare?
by Richard Higgins & Arijit Mukherjee - 379-384 Who will deregulate the deregulators?
by Edward López - 385-406 Public choice theory and antitrust policy
by William Shughart & Fred McChesney - 407-408 Public choice theory and antitrust policy: comment
by James Miller - 409-422 The consequences of the US DOJ’s antitrust activities: A macroeconomic perspective
by Andrew Young & William Shughart - 423-428 Antitrust public choice(s)
by Michael Reksulak - 429-436 Interest groups, public choice and the economics of religion
by Robert Ekelund & Robert Hébert - 437-440 A Tollisonian approach to religionomics
by Gokhan Karahan & Michelle Matthews