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October 2015, Volume 165, Issue 1
- 169-170 Michael C. Munger and Kevin M. Munger, Choosing in groups: analytical politics revisited
by Roger Congleton
September 2015, Volume 164, Issue 3
- 191-193 Guest editor’s introduction to the symposium on the 50th anniversary of Olson’s Logic of Collective Action
by Jac Heckelman - 195-216 Collective action: fifty years later
by Todd Sandler - 217-234 The Logic of Collective Action and beyond
by Roger Congleton - 235-250 Olson and imperceptible differences: the Tuck critique
by Geoffrey Brennan - 251-274 Supermajority rule and the law of 1/n
by Dongwon Lee - 275-285 The beast is not easily starved
by Dwight Lee - 287-307 Political biases despite external expert participation? An empirical analysis of tax revenue forecasts in Germany
by Thiess Buettner & Bjoern Kauder - 309-329 Strategic behavior by federal agencies in the allocation of public resources
by Stuart Kasdin & Luona Lin - 331-356 Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
by Nathan Jensen & Edmund Malesky & Matthew Walsh - 357-378 From Caesar to Tacitus: changes in early Germanic governance circa 50 BC-50 AD
by Andrew Young - 379-399 Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model
by Jan Brueckner & Kangoh Lee - 401-421 Virtual world order: the economics and organizations of virtual pirates
by Carl Mildenberger - 423-442 Citizens’ preferences about voting rules: self-interest, ideology, and sincerity
by André Blais & Jean-François Laslier & François Poinas & Karine Straeten - 443-445 George J. Borjas: Immigration economics
by Zachary Gochenour - 447-449 Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London & the Limits of Eminent Domain
by Thomas Miceli
July 2015, Volume 164, Issue 1
- 1-42 The anatomy of government failure
by William Keech & Michael Munger - 43-44 Erratum to: The anatomy of government failure
by William Keech & Michael Munger - 45-56 The empty intersection: why so little public choice in political science?
by Randy Simmons & Ryan Yonk - 57-73 Al Qaeda at the bar: coordinating ideologues and mercenaries in terrorist organizations
by Kjell Hausken & Sheheryar Banuri & Dipak Gupta & Klaus Abbink - 75-85 Regulation and corruption
by Randall Holcombe & Christopher Boudreaux - 87-101 Risk lovers and the rent over-investment puzzle
by Paan Jindapon & Christopher Whaley - 103-116 From mixed economy to entangled political economy: a Paretian social-theoretic orientation
by Meg Patrick & Richard Wagner - 117-133 Keeping the party together
by Hande Mutlu-Eren - 135-155 Sabotage in contests: a survey
by Subhasish Chowdhury & Oliver Gürtler - 157-175 Political fractionalization and delay in fiscal stabilizations: a duration analysis
by Kevin Grier & Shu Lin & Haichun Ye - 177-179 Jonathan D. Caverley: Democratic militarism: voting, wealth, and war
by Abigail Hall - 181-183 David Reisman: James Buchanan
by Randall Holcombe - 185-188 Richard H. Thaler: Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics
by Alex Cartwright - 189-189 Erratum to: Euvoluntariness and just market exchange: moral dilemmas from Locke’s Venditio
by Ricardo Guzmán & Michael Munger
June 2015, Volume 163, Issue 3
- 223-224 In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015)
by Michael Maloney & Robert Tollison - 225-246 The social contract in the laboratory. An experimental analysis of self-enforcing impartial agreements
by Marco Faillo & Stefania Ottone & Lorenzo Sacconi - 247-266 The UN Goldstone Report and retraction: an empirical investigation
by Arye Hillman & Niklas Potrafke - 267-287 The political economics of redistribution, inequality and tax avoidance
by Carlos Bethencourt & Lars Kunze - 289-305 Primaries: the unifying force
by Rafael Hortala-Vallve & Hannes Mueller - 307-320 Partial fiscal decentralization and sub-national government fiscal discipline: empirical evidence from OECD countries
by Zareh Asatryan & Lars Feld & Benny Geys - 321-335 Does immigration impact institutions?
by J. Clark & Robert Lawson & Alex Nowrasteh & Benjamin Powell & Ryan Murphy - 337-354 On the relationship between corruption and migration: empirical evidence from a gravity model of migration
by Marie Poprawe - 355-377 Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?
by Hans Pitlik & Ludek Kouba - 379-387 Public choice, social choice, and political economy
by Dennis Mueller - 389-391 Armin Steinbach: Economic policy coordination in the Euro-area
by Sebastian Dullien - 393-396 Michael J. Glennon: National Security and Double Government
by Christopher Coyne - 397-399 Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye (eds.), Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
by Douglas Allen - 401-403 Adam Smith and Bruce Yandle: Bootleggers and Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
by Diana Thomas - 405-408 William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by Claudia Williamson - 409-412 Jacob T. Levy: Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
by Mark Koyama
April 2015, Volume 163, Issue 1
- 1-5 Introduction to the Public Choice Society at 50 years symposium
by Edward Lopez - 7-13 Buchanan’s anti-conservatism
by Geoffrey Brennan - 15-29 Virginia political economy: a rational reconstruction
by Richard Wagner - 31-52 The value of formalism: re-examining external costs and decision costs with multiple groups
by Keith Dougherty & Julian Edward & Robi Ragan - 53-65 The past, present and future of Virginia Political Economy
by Peter Boettke & Alain Marciano - 67-83 Vincent Ostrom’s revolutionary science of association
by Michael Fotos - 85-93 The Bloomington Workshop: multiple methods, interdisciplinary research, and collective action
by James Walker - 95-109 Governing their commons: Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Bloomington School
by Roberta Herzberg - 111-127 Public Administration, Public Choice and the Ostroms: the achievements, the failure, the promise
by Paul Aligica - 129-151 Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
by Eli Dourado & Alex Tabarrok - 153-165 The strange history of social choice, and the contribution of the Public Choice Society to its fifth revival
by Iain McLean - 167-186 Constitutional law in social choice perspective
by Maxwell Stearns - 187-199 House money effects on trust and reciprocity
by Daniel Houser & Erte Xiao - 201-222 Further towards a theory of the emergence of property
by Bart Wilson
March 2015, Volume 162, Issue 3
- 225-227 In remembrance of Gordon Tullock
by J. Clark & Dwight Lee - 229-233 Thanks to Gordon Tullock
by Roger Congleton - 235-238 Remembering Gordon Tullock
by T. Nicolaus Tideman - 239-241 Gordon Tullock: gone but surely not forgotten
by Bruce Yandle - 243-262 Olson’s Logic of Collective Action at fifty
by Paul Pecorino - 263-285 How do elections affect international cooperation? Evidence from environmental treaty participation
by Antoine Cazals & Alexandre Sauquet - 287-305 Anarchy, self-governance, and legal titling
by Ilia Murtazashvili & Jennifer Murtazashvili - 307-328 Legitimacy and the cost of government
by Niclas Berggren & Christian Bjørnskov & David Lipka - 329-350 Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
by Konstantinos Matakos & Dimitrios Xefteris - 351-380 The rule of law and constitutionalism in Muslim countries
by Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt - 381-404 Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies
by Michael Dorsch & Karl Dunz & Paul Maarek - 405-423 Social interactions in voting behavior: distinguishing between strategic voting and the bandwagon effect
by Haldun Evrenk & Chien-Yuan Sher - 425-445 Global economic crisis and corruption
by Artjoms Ivlevs & Timothy Hinks - 447-449 Erratum to: Global economic crisis and corruption
by Artjoms Ivlevs & Timothy Hinks - 451-452 Massimo Florio, Applied welfare economics: cost–benefit analysis of projects and policies
by David Hollanders - 453-454 William R. Keech, Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy
by Michael Munger - 455-457 John Dunn: Breaking Democracy’s Spell
by Michael Munger - 459-462 Paul Dragos Aligica: Institutional diversity and political economy: the Ostroms and beyond
by Karol Sołtan - 463-465 Benjamin Powell, Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy
by Christopher Coyne - 467-469 David Emanuel Andersson and Stefano Moroni (eds): Cities and private planning: property rights, entrepreneurship, and transaction costs
by Alexander Salter
January 2015, Volume 162, Issue 1
- 1-24 Does remuneration affect the discipline and the selection of politicians? Evidence from pay harmonization in the European Parliament
by Thomas Braendle - 25-42 Is there a local knowledge advantage in federations? Evidence from a natural experiment
by André Schultz & Alexander Libman - 43-56 Signature requirements and citizen initiatives: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
by Felix Arnold & Ronny Freier - 57-78 Tax structure and corruption: cross-country evidence
by Yongzheng Liu & Haibo Feng - 79-96 Explaining party ideological stances
by Luigi Curini - 97-117 The occupations of regulators influence occupational regulation: evidence from the US private security industry
by Brian Meehan & Bruce Benson - 119-133 Voting and the economic cycle
by John Maloney & Andrew Pickering - 135-157 Voluntary public health insurance
by Catarina Goulão - 159-182 Ruling elites’ rotation and asset ownership: implications for property rights
by Leonid Polishchuk & Georgiy Syunyaev - 183-199 Mobilization, cost of voting and turnout: a natural randomized experiment with double elections
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar & Abel François - 201-203 Denise Minger, Death by food pyramid: how shoddy science, sketchy politics and shady special interests have ruined our health
by Adam Hoffer - 205-209 Tim Groseclose, Cheating: an insider’s report on the use of race in admissions at UCLA
by D. Roderick Kiewiet - 211-213 Peter H. Schuck: Why government fails so often: and how it can do better
by Matt Ryan - 215-217 David Skarbek: The social order of the underworld: how prison gangs govern the American penal system
by Graham Denyer Willis - 219-221 Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy unbound: why self-governance works better than you think
by Stergios Skaperdas
December 2014, Volume 161, Issue 3
- 269-288 It’s not me, it’s you: the functioning of Wall Street during the 2008 economic downturn
by Edward Stringham - 289-303 A hidden cost of war: the impact of mobilizing reserve troops on emergency response times
by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall & Patrick McLaughlin & Ann Zerkle - 305-320 Presidential priorities, congressional control, and the quality of regulatory analysis: an application to healthcare and homeland security
by Jerry Ellig & Christopher Conover - 321-344 Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis
by Vincenzo Bove & Roberto Nisticò - 345-366 On the efficiency of equilibria in a legislative bargaining model with particularistic and collective goods
by Daniel Cardona & Antoni Rubí-Barceló - 367-383 The causes of legal rents extraction: evidence from Spanish municipalities
by Bernardino Benito & Francisco Bastida & Ana-María Ríos & Cristina Vicente - 385-405 Impact of natural disaster on public sector corruption
by Eiji Yamamura - 407-426 Three-party competition in parliamentary democracy with proportional representation
by Seok-ju Cho - 427-450 Political competition, party polarization, and government performance
by Rune Sørensen - 451-470 Do jurisdictions compete on taxes? A meta-regression analysis
by Joan Costa-Font & Filipe De-Albuquerque & Hristos Doucouliagos - 471-497 Explaining variation in the competitiveness of U.S. Senate elections, 1922–2004
by Stanley Winer & Lawrence Kenny & Bernard Grofman - 499-515 Good news and bad news: evidence of media bias in unemployment reports
by Marcel Garz - 517-536 Assessing strategic voting in the 2008 US presidential primaries: the role of electoral context, institutional rules, and negative votes
by D. Hillygus & Sarah Treul - 537-539 Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community
by David Skarbek - 541-546 Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar companion to public choice, second edition
by Edward Lopez - 547-549 Filippo Sabetti and Paul Dragos Aligica (eds.), Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance
by Liya Palagashvili
October 2014, Volume 161, Issue 1
- 1-9 Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections
by Joseph Ornstein & Robert Norman - 11-29 Distribution of transfers and soft budget spending behaviors: evidence from Italian regions
by Fabio Padovano - 31-49 Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
by Hans Gersbach - 51-72 Do barriers to candidacy reduce political competition? Evidence from a bachelor’s degree requirement for legislators in Pakistan
by Madiha Afzal - 73-90 All-pay-all aspects of political decision making
by Thomas Giebe & Paul Schweinzer - 91-112 Constitutional verbosity and social trust
by Christian Bjørnskov & Stefan Voigt - 113-118 Buchanan and Tullock ignore their own contributions to expressive voting
by Dwight Lee & J. Clark - 119-139 Global corruption and the shadow economy: spatial aspects
by Rajeev Goel & James Saunoris - 141-156 The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials
by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay & Bryan McCannon - 157-181 The impact of consumer advocates on regulatory policy in the electric utility sector
by Adam Fremeth & Guy Holburn & Pablo Spiller - 183-207 Do the personal characteristics of finance ministers affect changes in public debt?
by Marc-Daniel Moessinger - 209-232 The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments
by Tjaša Bjedov & Simon Lapointe & Thierry Madiès - 233-255 Voter information and electoral outcomes: the Norwegian list of shame
by Arnt Hopland - 257-259 T. Randolph Beard, David L. Kaserman, and Rigmar Osterkamp, The global organ shortage: economic causes, human consequences, policy responses
by Peter Zweifel - 261-264 Ilya Somin, Democracy and political ignorance: why smaller government is smarter
by Stephen Miller - 265-267 Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the military-industrial complex in the United States and Great Britain
by Abigail Hall
September 2014, Volume 160, Issue 3
- 295-312 Packed primaries and empty caucuses: voter turnout in presidential nominations
by Caitlin Jewitt - 313-326 Weak Condorcet winner(s) revisited
by Dan Felsenthal & Nicolaus Tideman - 327-344 Identifying the bandwagon effect in two-round elections
by Áron Kiss & Gábor Simonovits - 345-366 Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of the initiative process
by John Matsusaka - 367-389 Do constitutions matter? Evidence from a natural experiment at the municipality level
by Florian Ade - 391-409 Immigration, redistribution, and universal suffrage
by Raul Magni-Berton - 411-428 Reciprocity and resistance to comprehensive reform
by Urs Fischbacher & Simeon Schudy - 429-453 Forecast dispersion, dissenting votes, and monetary policy preferences of FOMC members: the role of individual career characteristics and political aspects
by Stefan Eichler & Tom Lähner - 455-466 The use of eminent domain in land assembly: The case of the Tennessee Valley Authority
by Carl Kitchens - 467-479 The impact of closeness on electoral participation exploiting the Italian double ballot system
by Maria Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa - 481-499 Kidnap insurance and its impact on kidnapping outcomes
by Alexander Fink & Mark Pingle - 501-519 Ministerial gatekeeping and parliamentary involvement in the implementation process of EU directives
by Thomas König & Bernd Luig - 521-538 Political interaction in the senate: estimating a political “spatial” weights matrix and an application to lobbying behavior
by B. Chupp - 539-549 Transaction costs can encourage Coasean bargaining
by Alex Robson - 551-557 Thomas Piketty: Capital in the twenty-first century
by Randall Holcombe - 559-562 Brett M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: the social value of shared resources
by Alain Marciano - 563-565 Wolfgang Kasper, Manfred E. Streit and Peter J. Boettke: Institutional economics: property, competition, and policies, 2nd ed
by G. Manish - 567-569 Edmund Phelps: Mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change
by Rosolino Candela
July 2014, Volume 160, Issue 1
- 1-6 Tom Borcherding
by Matt Lindsay & Robert Deacon & Darren Filson - 7-24 Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections: does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter?
by James Adams & Samuel Merrill - 25-44 An empirical analysis of alternative ways that terrorist groups end
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Todd Sandler - 45-63 Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
by Brenton Peterson & Sonal Pandya & David Leblang - 65-108 Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased?
by John Lott & Kevin Hassett - 109-130 Voting Islamist or voting secular? An empirical analysis of voting outcomes in Egypt’s “Arab Spring”
by May Elsayyad & Shima’a Hanafy - 131-153 Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law
by Michael Makowsky & Thomas Stratmann - 155-180 The Chicago Fire of 1871: a bottom-up approach to disaster relief
by Emily Skarbek - 181-203 State involvement in limiting textbook choice by school districts
by Michelle Phillips - 205-225 Why do parties use primaries?: Political selection versus candidate incentives
by Fernando Aragón - 227-249 Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia
by Jean-Paul Faguet & Fabio Sánchez - 251-273 What’s a losing party to do? The calculus of contesting state legislative elections
by Thomas Carsey & William Berry - 275-277 Wilfred Dolfsma: Government failure: society, markets, and rules
by Peter Calcagno - 279-281 Joshua Page: The toughest beat: politics, punishment, and the prison officers union in California
by Kaitlyn Harger - 283-286 Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, deliberating American monetary policy: a textual analysis
by Alexander Salter - 287-290 David Levi-Faur (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Governance
by Paul Aligica - 291-291 Erratum to: Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
by Mogens Justesen & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 293-293 Erratum to: Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860
by Jeffrey Grynaviski & Michael Munger
June 2014, Volume 159, Issue 3
- 321-326 The costs of collectivization, per se
by James Buchanan & Yong Yoon - 327-339 Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
by Eerik Lagerspetz - 341-361 Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860
by Jeffrey Grynaviski & Michael Munger - 363-383 Loyalty for sale? Military spending and coups d’etat
by Gabriel Leon - 385-414 Religious decline in the 20th century West: testing alternative explanations
by Raphaël Franck & Laurence Iannaccone - 415-433 Parties and institutions: empirical evidence on veto players and the growth of government
by Casper Hunnerup Dahl - 435-455 Political institutions and income (re-)distribution: evidence from developed economies
by Lars Feld & Jan Schnellenbach - 457-467 Popularity, polarization, and political budget cycles
by Marek Hanusch & Daniel Magleby - 469-483 (De)Centralization and voter turnout: theory and evidence from German municipalities
by Claus Michelsen & Peter Boenisch & Benny Geys - 485-501 The limits of tax and expenditure limits: TEL implementation as a principal-agent problem
by Ellen Seljan - 503-514 Form vs. substance in selection through competition: elections, markets, and political economy
by Richard Wagner & Deema Yazigi - 515-531 Third-party threat and the dimensionality of major-party roll call voting
by Daniel Lee - 533-559 Electoral misgovernance cycles: evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece
by Spyros Skouras & Nicos Christodoulakis - 561-576 Imperfect information and the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis
by Christian Bredemeier - 577-579 Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner: The Behavior of Federal Judges
by Alison Newman - 581-583 Gary Chartier, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and politics for a stateless society
by Edward Stringham - 585-587 Francesco Parisi (ed.), Production of Legal Rules, volume 7: Encyclopedia of law and economics (2nd ed.)
by J. Robert Subrick - 589-593 Zoltan J. Acs: Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being
by Lenore Ealy - 595-597 Dinissa Duvanova: Building business in post-communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: collective goods, selective incentives, and predatory states
by Dalibor Roháč
April 2014, Volume 159, Issue 1
- 3-21 Common pool size and project size: an empirical test on expenditures using Danish municipal mergers
by Sune Welling Hansen - 23-26 A correction to Potters and van Winden (1992)
by Jason Weinreb & Joan Ricart-Huguet - 27-52 On revolt and endogenous economic policy in autocratic regimes
by Joel Guttman & Rafael Reuveny - 53-62 Participation quorums in costly meetings
by Sabine Flamand & Orestis Troumpounis - 63-82 How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy
by Matthias Dahm & Robert Dur & Amihai Glazer - 83-98 Implementing the Borda outcome via truncated scoring rules: a computational study
by Onur Doğan & Ayça Giritligil - 99-104 Returns to effort in rent-seeking games
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Francesco Parisi - 105-120 The welfare state, migration, and voting rights
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar - 121-139 On the political and fiscal determinants of income redistribution under federalism and democracy: evidence from Germany
by Helmut Herwartz & Bernd Theilen - 141-158 Exploring the nature of inter-country interactions in the process of ratifying international environmental agreements: the case of the Kyoto Protocol
by Alexandre Sauquet - 159-176 Voters, dictators, and peons: expressive voting and pivotality
by Emir Kamenica & Louisa Egan Brad - 177-196 Can democracy induce development? A constitutional perspective
by Hans Gersbach & Lars-H. Siemers - 197-218 Location, location, location: the Davis-Hinich model of electoral competition
by John Jackson - 219-234 Competence and ambiguity in electoral competition
by Sivan Frenkel - 235-249 A preferential attachment model of campaign contributions in state legislative elections
by Greg Vonnahme - 251-275 Legislative budget cycles
by Cameron Shelton