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September 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 275-285 What difference does a voting rule make?
by Chang Geun Song - 286-296 The case for the five in final five voting
by Katherine Gehl - 297-309 The case for score voting
by Warren D. Smith - 310-334 STAR Voting, equality of voice, and voter satisfaction: considerations for voting method reform
by Sara Wolk & Jameson Quinn & Marcus Ogren - 335-345 The case for approval voting
by Aaron Hamlin & Whitney Hua - 346-356 Electoral reform: the case for majority judgment
by Rida Laraki - 357-366 Selecting a voting method: the case for the Borda count
by Donald G. Saari - 367-377 The case for Instant Runoff Voting
by Rob Richie & Jeremy Seitz-Brown & Lucy Kaufman - 378-389 The failure of Instant Runoff to accomplish the purpose for which it was adopted: a case study from Burlington Vermont
by Robert Bristow-Johnson - 390-409 Coalitional manipulation of voting rules: simulations on empirical data
by François Durand - 410-420 The case for minimax-TD
by Richard B. Darlington - 421-433 Stable Voting
by Wesley H. Holliday & Eric Pacuit - 434-444 The best Condorcet-compatible election method: Ranked Pairs
by Charles T. Munger - 445-457 Implications of strategic position choices by candidates
by Robbie Robinette - 458-470 A Dodgson-Hare synthesis
by James Green-Armytage - 471-481 Choosing among the Variety of proposed Voting Reforms
by Nicolaus Tideman
June 2023, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 145-164 The effects of economic development on democratic institutions and repression in non-democratic regimes: theory and evidence
by Alexander Kemnitz & Martin Roessler - 165-187 State capacity, economic freedom, and classical liberalism
by Ryan H. Murphy - 188-209 Covid-19 and the 2020 presidential election
by David Mitchell - 210-225 Political polarization in the UK: measures and socioeconomic correlates
by Daryna Grechyna - 226-256 Bureaucratic rent creation: the case of price discrimination in the market for postsecondary education
by Peter K. Hazlett & Chandler S. Reilly - 257-259 Public debt and the common good: philosophical and institutional implications of fiscal imbalance
by William Coleman - 260-266 Money and the rule of Law
by Pablo Paniagua - 267-273 Solving social dilemmas: ethics, politics and prosperity by Roger Congleton. New York: Oxford university press. 2022 pp.460, ISBN 9780197642788 (hbk)
by George Tridimas
March 2023, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 1-35 On the structure of the political party system in Indian states, 1957–2018
by J. Stephen Ferris & Bharatee Bhusana Dash - 36-58 Branching on the bench: quantifying division in the supreme court with trees
by Noah Giansiracusa - 59-87 A master of two servants: lessons from the israeli experience about the effect of separation of powers on public accountability and social welfare
by Mordechai E. Schwarz - 88-110 Building inclusive institutions in polarized scenarios
by Lina Restrepo-Plaza & Enrique Fatas - 111-134 How cooperative is “cooperative federalism”? The political limits to intergovernmental cooperation under a de facto concurrency rule
by Christa Scholtz & Andrei Munteanu - 135-143 The decline and rise of democracy, by David Stasavage Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020 pp 406 ISBN 978-0-6971-17746 (hbk)
by George Tridimas
December 2022, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 407-412 Geoffrey Brennan
by Alan Hamlin - 413-432 A classification of the methodology of James M. Buchanan from a multidisciplinary perspective
by Gustavo Nunes Mourão & Eduardo Angeli - 433-444 Lessons from the Japanese ninja: on achieving a higher trade equilibrium under anarchy and private constitutions
by Vladimir V. Maltsev - 445-460 Giants among us: do we need a new antitrust paradigm?
by Michael C. Munger - 461-482 Political inequality, political participation, and support for populist parties
by Kim Leonie Kellermann - 483-506 Clientelism or public goods: dilemma in a ‘divided democracy’
by Soumyanetra Munshi
September 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 255-300 Elections, lobbying and economic policies: an empirical investigation across Indian states
by Deepti Kohli - 301-325 Path dependence in administrative adjudication: the role played by legal tradition
by Monika Stachowiak-Kudła & Janusz Kudła - 326-353 Have you been served, your honor? Yes, thank you, your excellency: the judiciary and political corruption
by Khalid Sekkat - 354-377 The tax morale of exhausted taxpayers. The case of Greece
by Konstantinos Fotiadis & Prodromos Chatzoglou - 378-401 Tax collection in the Roman Empire: a new institutional economics approach
by Óscar Gutiérrez & Marco Martínez-Esteller - 402-405 Randall G. Holcombe, Coordination, Cooperation, and control. The evolution of Economic and Political Power. XII, 328 pp. Palgrave Macmillan 2020
by Mario Ferrero
June 2022, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 115-134 The organization of volunteer battalions in Ukraine
by Garrett Ryan Wood - 135-161 Trust and trustworthiness after a land restitution program: lab-in-the-field evidence from Colombia
by Francesco Bogliacino & Gianluca Grimalda & Laura Jiménez & Daniel Reyes Galvis & Cristiano Codagnone - 162-199 Feuding, arbitration, and the emergence of an independent judiciary
by Benjamin Broman & Georg Vanberg - 200-216 A short history of liberalism in contemporary Iran
by Aref Barkhordari - 217-232 Is Russia really a normal country? A numerical taxonomy of Russia in comparative perspective
by Alberto Batinti & Jeffrey Kopstein - 233-253 Autocratic family policy
by Clara E. Piano
March 2022, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 1-24 Convention without convening
by Erik W. Matson & Daniel B. Klein - 25-52 Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power
by Victoria Paniagua & Jan P. Vogler - 53-66 Advance voting and political competition
by Mats Ekman - 67-79 Where you stand depends on where you live: county voting on the Texas secession referendum
by Curtis Bram & Michael Munger - 80-99 Dynamic preferences and the behavioral case against sin taxes
by Charles Delmotte & Malte Dold - 100-114 Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact
by Roger D. Congleton & Alex Marsella & Alexander J. Cardazzi
December 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 413-430 Power in office: presidents, governments, and parliaments in the institutional design of contemporary democracies
by Giuseppe Ieraci - 431-461 Constitutional monarchy as power sharing
by George Tridimas - 462-475 Parties
by Thomas Schwartz - 476-501 The Acceptability of Accountability
by John Bone & Paolo Crosetto & John Hey & Carmen Pasca - 502-522 The political economy of euro area sovereign debt restructuring
by Friedrich Heinemann - 523-526 Review for constitutional political economy of the book by George C. Bitros, Emmanouil M. L. Economou and Nicholas C. Kyriazis
by Bertram Schefold - 527-528 Correction to: Richard E. Wagner (Ed.): James M. Buchanan—A theorist of political economy and social philosophy
by Karen Horn
September 2021, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 273-277 Fragile democracies and constitutional crises: a laboratory for studying the role of constitutional constraints
by Monika Nalepa & Emilia Justyna Powell - 278-300 Transitional justice and authoritarian backsliding
by Monika Nalepa - 301-325 Riding the democracy train: incumbent-led paths to autocracy
by İpek Çınar - 326-345 Term-limit evasions and the non-compliance cycle
by Zachary Elkins - 346-375 Vulnerability, due process, and reform in modern Mexico
by Milena Ang & Yuna Blajer de la Garza - 376-412 Islam-based legal language and state governance: democracy, strength of the judiciary and human rights
by Emilia Justyna Powell & Steven Christian McDowell & Robert O’Brien & Julia Oksasoglu
June 2021, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 145-164 Welfare without rent seeking? Buchanan’s demogrant proposal and the possibility of a constitutional welfare state
by Otto Lehto & John Meadowcroft - 165-186 The calculus of democratic deliberation
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Urs Steiner Brandt - 187-217 Are civil liberties contagious? Analysis of determinants of de facto civil rights protection in post-socialist countries
by Anna Lewczuk - 218-232 The demise of the Roman Republic: a faulty constitution?
by Richard Jankowski - 233-265 Post-socialist “illiberal democracies”: do de jure constitutional rights matter?
by Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska & Jacek Lewkowicz - 266-271 Peter Bernholz’s: Totalitarianism, terrorism and supreme values: history and theory (Springer, 2017)
by Thomas Baumert
March 2021, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-30 Power sharing at the local level: evidence on opting-in for non-citizen voting rights
by Alois Stutzer & Michaela Slotwinski - 31-51 The politics within institutions for regulating public spending: conditional compliance within multi-year budgets
by Bernard Steunenberg - 52-67 Analysis of the implementation of information disclosure ordinances in Japan: the effect on the income of chief executives in local governments
by Eiji Yamamura & Ryo Ishida - 68-97 Comparing governments’ efficiency at supplying income redistribution
by Fabio Padovano & Francesco Scervini & Gilberto Turati - 98-126 Culture, democracy and regulation
by Claudia R. Williamson - 127-143 The political economy of feudalism in medieval Europe
by Andrew T. Young
December 2020, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 395-445 Do inheritance rules affect voter turnout? Evidence from an Alpine region
by Andrea Bonoldi & Chiara Dalle Nogare & Martin Mosler & Niklas Potrafke - 446-457 Qualifying the common pool problem in government spending: the role of positional externalities
by Dušan Pavlović & Dimitros Xefteris - 458-488 The impact of electoral rules on manufacturing industries: evidence of disaggregated data of 61 industries of 55 countries
by Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung & Izaskun Zuazu - 489-508 The impacts of civil society and inequality on the extractive capacity of authoritarian regimes: a conceptual model and the case study of Vietnam
by Thai Q. Nguyen & Giang K. Nguyen - 509-536 Constitutional power concentration and corruption: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
by Andrea Sáenz de Viteri Vázquez & Christian Bjørnskov
September 2020, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 267-291 What happens when voting rules change? the case of New Zealand
by J. Stephen Ferris - 292-328 Does the 4th estate deliver? The Political Coverage Index and its application to media capture
by Ralf Dewenter & Uwe Dulleck & Tobias Thomas - 329-343 A panel data analysis of Latin American populism
by Nicolás Cachanosky & Alexandre Padilla - 344-362 Role of political connections in land investment: evidence from rural India
by Malik Altaf Hussain & Malvika Tyagi - 363-393 Allocation of village public goods at community level: does political reservation help?
by Vivekananda Mukherjee & Saheli Bose & Malabika Roy
June 2020, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 145-168 Generality and knowledge: Hayek's constitutional theory of the liberal state
by Christopher S. Martin & Nikolai G. Wenzel - 169-187 How the Republic of Venice chose its Doge: lot-based elections and supermajority rule
by M. Cristina Molinari - 188-204 Blockchains and constitutional catallaxy
by Alastair Berg & Chris Berg & Mikayla Novak - 205-226 Turn-taking in office
by Daniel J. Smith - 227-258 The consistency of market beliefs as a determinant of economic freedom
by Pál Czeglédi - 259-265 Richard E. Wagner (Ed.): James M. Buchanan—A theorist of political economy and social philosophy
by Karen Horn
March 2020, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-44 Economic freedom and materialism: an empirical analysis
by Megan V. Teague & Virgil Henry Storr & Rosemarie Fike - 45-69 Justice, what money can buy: a lab experiment on primary social goods and the Rawlsian difference principle
by Joshua Chen-Yuan Teng & Joseph Tao-yi Wang & C. C. Yang - 70-88 The psychological foundations of rational ignorance: biased heuristics and decision costs
by Brad R. Taylor - 89-110 Making exit costly but efficient: the political economy of exit clauses and secession
by Martijn Huysmans & Christophe Crombez - 111-141 Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism
by Roger D. Congleton - 142-144 Fortifying the fragile order of democracy
by Stefan Kolev
December 2019, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 367-382 Perceptions of institutional quality and justification of tax evasion
by Alvaro Forteza & Cecilia Noboa - 383-406 Parliamentary and semi-presidential advantages in the sovereign credit market: democratic institutional design and sovereign credibility
by Isa Camyar - 407-437 The classical limits to police power and the economic foundations of the Slaughterhouse dissents
by Nicola Giocoli - 438-466 Determinants of governmental support of Russian companies: lessons on industrial policy, rent-seeking and corruption
by Dennis Coates & Iuliia Naidenova & Petr Parshakov - 467-479 The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: a masterful compendium
by Richard E. Wagner
September 2019, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 261-281 Collective choice in Aristotle
by Adrian Miroiu & Catalin Partenie - 282-299 Busy doing nothing: why politicians implement inefficient policies
by Anders Gustafsson - 300-329 Public R&D under different electoral rules: evidence from OECD countries
by Pijus Krūminas - 330-357 Sanctioning, selection, and pivotality in voting: theory and experimental results
by Kai A. Konrad & Raisa Sherif - 358-362 Sheilagh Ogilvie: The European guilds: an economic analysis
by Sebastian Coll - 363-366 Governance and the political entrepreneur
by Oliver Schmidt
June 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 131-148 Governance and the dimensions of autocracy
by Ryan H. Murphy - 149-176 Do parliamentary gender quotas decrease gender inequality? The case of African countries
by Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl & Iyabo Obasanjo - 177-193 Choregia and trierarchy as profit-oriented entrepreneurships
by Joshua Günther & Felix Hahn - 194-210 Signals from a politicized bar: the solicitor general as a direct litigant before the U.S. Supreme Court
by Scott S. Boddery - 211-234 Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking
by Patrick A. McLaughlin & Adam C. Smith & Russell S. Sobel - 235-260 A decentralized cooperative solution to the iterated pacifist’s dilemma game: notes in the margin of Pinker’s theory of Leviathan
by Matti Vuorensyrjä
March 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-30 Electoral systems and the economy: a firm-level analysis
by Isa Camyar & Bahar Ulupinar - 31-49 Using tax dollars for re-election: the impact of pork-barrel spending on electoral success
by J. Zachary Klingensmith - 50-69 Political polarization, term length and too much delegation
by Carsten Hefeker - 70-95 Escape from Europe: a calculus of consent model of the origins of liberal institutions in the North American colonies
by Vlad Tarko & Kyle O’Donnell - 96-113 Liberalism and great upheaval: What did classical liberals do in the Tsarist Russia?
by Leonid Krasnozhon & Mykola Bunyk - 114-129 Metaphysical justification for an economic constitution? Franz Böhm and the concept of natural law
by Daniel Nientiedt
December 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 371-388 Path dependence and transitions from tyranny to democracy: evidence from ancient Greece
by Robert K. Fleck & F. Andrew Hanssen - 389-412 Making direct democracy work: a rational-actor perspective on the graphe paranomon in ancient Athens
by Carl Hampus Lyttkens & George Tridimas & Anna Lindgren - 413-423 Arbitration in classical Athens
by Bryan C. McCannon - 424-439 The law and economics of sycophancy
by Daniel J. D’Amico - 440-464 What was the law of Leptines’ really about? Reflections on Athenian public economy and legislation in the fourth century BCE
by Mirko Canevaro
September 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 253-267 Political parties: insights from a tri-planar model of political economy
by David J. Hebert & Richard E. Wagner - 268-280 The constitution of patron–client relations and patronage appointments: a study of open and limited access
by Louis Corriveau - 281-302 The effect of equalizing differences on tax-price: explaining patterns of political support across industries
by Joseph Michael Newhard - 303-316 Interest group support for non-group issues
by Randall G. Holcombe & Robert J. Gmeiner - 317-337 Is the Spanish Constitutional Court an instrument of the central government against the Autonomous Communities?
by Julio López-Laborda & Fernando Rodrigo & Eduardo Sanz-Arcega - 338-338 Correction to: Is the Spanish Constitutional Court an instrument of the central government against the Autonomous Communities?
by Julio López-Laborda & Fernando Rodrigo & Eduardo Sanz-Arcega - 339-369 The political economy of Kulturkampf: evidence from imperial Prussia and republican Turkey
by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis & Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
June 2018, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 115-136 Social contracts for real moral agents: a synthesis of public reason and public choice approaches to constitutional design
by Kevin Vallier - 137-170 A short history of constitutional liberalism in America
by Roger D. Congleton - 171-192 Medieval representative assemblies: collective action and antecedents of limited government
by Alexander William Salter & Andrew T. Young - 193-229 Judicial impartiality in politically charged cases
by Raphaël Franck - 230-251 Why the Arab Spring turned Islamic: the political economy of Islam
by Mario Ferrero
March 2018, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-19 Regime types, ideological leanings, and the natural resource curse
by Chong-Sup Kim & Seungho Lee - 20-39 Institutions and the effectiveness of expenditures on environmental protection: evidence from Middle Eastern countries
by Hassan F. Gholipour & Mohammad Reza Farzanegan - 40-68 Do democracies have higher current account deficits?
by Antonis Adam & Sofia Tsarsitalidou - 69-92 The weight of the median voter ageing on public debt
by Ernest Dautovic - 93-113 Contributions to the exchequer funds by state level public sector enterprises: does political alignment matter?
by Ritika Jain
December 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 311-320 A proposal for a more objective measure of de facto constitutional constraints
by Moshe Yanovskiy & Tim Ginker - 321-345 De jure and de facto determinants of power: evidence from Mississippi
by Graziella Bertocchi & Arcangelo Dimico - 346-372 Political importance and its relation to the federal prosecution of public corruption
by Jamie Bologna Pavlik - 373-406 Managing judges mathematically: an empirical study of the medical malpractice litigations in Shanghai
by Wei Zhang - 407-421 Who pays taxes? Liturgies and the Antidosis procedure in Ancient Athens
by Bryan C. McCannon
September 2017, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 209-230 Constitutional choice in ancient Athens: the evolution of the frequency of decision making
by George Tridimas - 231-256 The institutional rationale of central banking reconsidered
by Pablo Paniagua - 257-269 The debt brake of the German states: a faulty design?
by Gebhard Kirchgässner - 270-285 Buchanan on increasing returns and anticommons
by Yong J. Yoon - 286-310 Normative economics and paternalism: the problem with the preference-satisfaction account of welfare
by Cyril Hédoin
June 2017, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 97-116 Federalism and horizontal equity across Switzerland and Germany: a new rationale for a decentralized fiscal structure
by Peter Schwarz - 117-141 Fixed versus flexible election terms: explaining innovation in the timing of Canada’s election cycle
by J. Stephen Ferris & Derek E. H. Olmstead - 142-166 Domestic institutions and the ratification of international agreements in a panel of democracies
by Florian Kiesow Cortez & Jerg Gutmann - 167-192 Poor institutions as a comparative advantage
by Cortney Stephen Rodet - 193-194 Erratum to: Poor institutions as a comparative advantage
by Cortney Stephen Rodet - 195-208 The problem of constitutional legitimation: what the debate on electoral quotas tells us about the legitimacy of decision-making rules in constitutional choice
by Aris Trantidis
March 2017, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-17 Tullock on the organization of scientific inquiry
by Jac C. Heckelman - 18-34 Gordon Tullock’s ill-fated appendix: “Flatland Revisited”
by David M. Levy & Sandra J. Peart - 35-47 Tullock on the common law: a loose-cannon iconoclast in action?
by Stefan Voigt - 48-61 Gordon Tullock and the Virginia School of Law and Economics
by Francesco Parisi & Barbara Luppi & Alice Guerra - 62-78 Political incentives for rent creation
by Randall G. Holcombe - 79-96 Expressive voting and two-dimensional political competition: an application to law and order policy by New Labour in the UK
by Stephen Drinkwater & Colin Jennings
December 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 355-376 Economic globalization and the change of electoral rules
by Christian Walter Martin & Nils D. Steiner - 377-398 Native American reservation constitutions
by R. Warren Anderson - 399-417 Fairness and efficiency in US Revolutionary War takings and post-war debt redemption
by Jonathan Stone & Jeffrey Wagner - 418-434 No progressive taxation without discrimination? On the generality of the law in the classical liberal tradition
by Åsbjørn Melkevik - 435-450 Will a government find it financially easier to neutralize a looming protest if more groups are involved?
by Oded Stark & Ewa Zawojska
September 2016, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 249-259 We start from here
by Russell Hardin - 260-272 Is democracy compatible with global institutions?
by Josep M. Colomer - 273-298 EU enlargement and satisfaction with democracy: a peculiar case of immiserizing growth
by Barbara Dluhosch & Daniel Horgos & Klaus W. Zimmermann - 332-353 An expected utility analysis of k-majority rules
by Keith L. Dougherty & Robi Ragan
June 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 112-123 Gordon Tullock: economic gadfly
by Dennis C. Mueller - 124-141 Where are the rent seekers?
by Arye L. Hillman & Heinrich W. Ursprung - 142-157 Rent seeking and the economics of corruption
by Toke S. Aidt - 158-178 Gordon Tullock’s theory of revolution and dictatorship
by Thomas Apolte - 179-193 Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government
by Roger D. Congleton - 214-226 Gordon Tullock and experimental public choice
by Arthur Schram
March 2016, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 1-40 State provision of constitutional goods
by Romain Espinosa - 41-65 On the overthrow or endurance of kings
by George Tridimas - 66-92 An empirical analysis of constitutional review voting in the polish constitutional tribunal, 2003–2014
by Jarosław Kantorowicz & Nuno Garoupa - 93-110 Hayek on corporate social responsibility
by Shigeki Kusunoki
December 2015, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 391-420 Does direct democracy make for better citizens? A cautionary warning based on cross-country evidence
by Stefan Voigt & Lorenz Blume - 421-433 Is foreign aid a pure public good for donor country citizens?
by Travis Wiseman & Andrew Young - 434-441 Endogenous voting weights for elected representatives and redistricting
by Justin Svec & James Hamilton - 442-454 Analytic conservatism and analytic radicalism: Of understated distinctions and other analytical things
by Michael Brooks - 455-474 Modeling the individual for constitutional choice
by Brian Kogelmann - 475-494 “The other side of the argument”: Isaiah Berlin versus F. A. von Hayek on liberty, public policies, and the market
by Athanassios Pitsoulis & Steffen Groß
September 2015, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 247-280 Constitutional property rights protection and economic growth: evidence from the post-communist transition
by Christian Bjørnskov - 281-306 The importance of the political process on corporate tax policy
by Åsa Hansson & Susan Porter & Susan Williams - 307-327 The constitution of economic liberty in Hong Kong
by Eric Ip - 328-355 Incompatible institutions: socialism versus constitutionalism in India
by Shruti Rajagopalan - 356-374 Votes on behalf of children: a legitimate way of giving them a voice in politics?
by Stephan Wolf & Nils Goldschmidt & Thomas Petersen - 375-390 Calhoun’s concurrent majority as a generality norm
by Alexander Salter