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September 2009, Volume 140, Issue 3
- 539-542 Donald G. Saari, Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting Paradoxes: Social Choice Analysis
by Michael Munger - 543-545 Glenn R. Parker. Capitol Investments: The Marketability of Political Skills
by Justin Buchler
July 2009, Volume 140, Issue 1
- 1-13 Coase and Bertrand on lighthouses
by Walter Block & William Barnett - 15-20 Empirical investigations and their normative interpretations: A reply to Barnett and Block
by Elodie Bertrand - 21-42 Political influence on historical ESA listings by state: a count data analysis
by Bonnie Harllee & Myungsup Kim & Michael Nieswiadomy - 43-58 Voting over taxes: the case of tax evasion
by Christian Traxler - 59-84 Can foreign aid reduce income inequality and poverty?
by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein & Cecilia Calderon - 85-104 A basic tool set for a generalized directional model
by Eric Linhart & Susumu Shikano - 105-124 Did globalization restrict partisan politics? An empirical evaluation of social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries
by Niklas Potrafke - 125-143 Coordination, focal points and voting in strategic situations: a natural experiment
by Ganna Pogrebna & Pavlo Blavatskyy - 145-160 Different goods, different effects: exploring the effects of generalized social trust in large-N collective action
by Kim Mannemar Sønderskov - 161-184 The impact of surplus sharing on the portfolio mix of public sector defined benefit pension plans: a public choice approach
by J. Aronson & James Dearden & Vincent Munley - 185-204 Leviathan resists: the endogenous relationship between privatization and firm performance
by K. Arin & Mehmet Ulubaşoğlu - 205-221 Corruption, federalism, and policy formation in the OECD: the case of energy policy
by Per Fredriksson & Herman Vollebergh - 223-244 Attitude-dependent altruism, turnout and voting
by Julio Rotemberg - 245-265 The nexus between corruption and capital account restrictions
by Axel Dreher & Lars-H. Siemers - 267-270 David M. Primo, Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions
by Michael New - 271-273 William A. Niskanen. Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Political Processes
by Philip Porter
June 2009, Volume 139, Issue 3
- 263-272 Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics
by Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson - 273-299 Islam’s democracy paradox: Muslims claim to like democracy, so why do they have so little?
by Charles Rowley & Nathanael Smith - 301-315 Campaign contributions as a commitment device
by Zacharias Maniadis - 317-333 Seat-vote curves, loyalty effects and the provincial distribution of Canadian government spending
by Vaughan Dickson - 335-342 The uniqueness of pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games with risk-averse players
by Takeshi Yamazaki - 343-356 It’s the economy, and then some: modeling the presidential vote with state panel data
by Leo Kahane - 357-369 Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding
by Gil Epstein & Yosef Mealem - 371-387 Informal institutions rule: institutional arrangements and economic performance
by Claudia Williamson - 389-411 Fiscal adjustments: do labor and product market institutions matter?
by Athanasios Tagkalakis - 413-428 Coalition politics and accountability
by Áron Kiss - 429-441 Does trading votes in national elections change election outcomes?
by Frank Daumann & Alfred Wassermann - 443-459 The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract
by Peter Leeson - 461-492 Choice of law and legal evolution: rethinking the market for legal rules
by Emanuela Carbonara & Francesco Parisi - 493-507 Federal, state, and local governments: evaluating their separate roles in US growth
by Matthew Higgins & Andrew Young & Daniel Levy
April 2009, Volume 139, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial announcement
by W. Shughart - 3-3 The legacy of Bismarck
by Gordon Tullock - 5-19 Geographical redistribution with disproportional representation: a politico-economic model of Norwegian road projects
by Leif Helland & Rune Sørensen - 21-37 Pivotal states in the Electoral College, 1880 to 2004
by John Wright - 39-52 (When and how) do voters try to manipulate?
by Sebastian Kube & Clemens Puppe - 53-59 The robustness of the optimal weighted majority rule to probability distortion
by Eyal Baharad & Ruth Ben-Yashar - 61-82 Educational business cycles
by Markus Tepe & Pieter Vanhuysse - 83-104 Political decision of risk reduction: the role of trust
by Meglena Jeleva & Stephane Rossignol - 105-119 Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis
by Germà Bel & Xavier Fageda - 121-124 Third parties in equilibrium: comment and correction
by Haldun Evrenk - 125-134 The political trend in local government tax setting
by Raffaella Santolini - 135-151 An econometric analysis of counterterrorism effectiveness: the impact on life and property losses
by Konstantinos Drakos & Nicholas Giannakopoulos - 153-158 Bribing potential entrants in a rent-seeking contest
by Lambert Schoonbeek - 159-170 More evidence of the effects of voting technology on election outcomes
by Maarten Allers & Peter Kooreman - 171-196 Seeking rents in the shadow of Coase
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Sander Onderstal & Francesco Parisi - 197-225 The economic effects of constitutions: replicating—and extending—Persson and Tabellini
by Lorenz Blume & Jens Müller & Stefan Voigt & Carsten Wolf - 227-240 How fair is pricing perceived to be? An empirical study
by Charles Raux & Stéphanie Souche & Yves Croissant - 241-262 Public good provision under dictatorship and democracy
by Robert Deacon
March 2009, Volume 138, Issue 3
- 263-277 Political competition and economic performance: evidence from the Italian regions
by Fabio Padovano & Roberto Ricciuti - 279-299 General Blotto: games of allocative strategic mismatch
by Russell Golman & Scott Page - 301-315 Interest groups and economic performance: some new evidence
by Daniel Horgos & Klaus Zimmermann - 317-345 The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism
by Bruno Frey & Simon Luechinger & Alois Stutzer - 347-366 A model of candidate location with endogenous valence
by Alexei Zakharov - 367-386 Politics and the implementation of public policy: The case of the US military housing allowance program
by Scott Carrell & Janice Hauge - 387-408 Political institutions and debt crises
by Caroline Rijckeghem & Beatrice Weder - 409-422 Rent-seeking contests with private values and resale
by Yong Sui - 423-446 Economic integration and the relationship between profit and wage taxes
by Andreas Haufler & Alexander Klemm & Guttorm Schjelderup - 447-460 What explains attitudes across US trade policies?
by Michael Hoffman - 461-474 The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: evidence from a natural experiment
by Marcus Drometer & Johannes Rincke - 475-482 The change in aggregate budget behavior in the 1990s: a cointegration-error correction model analysis
by Paul Blackley - 483-490 Government spending and happiness of the population: additional evidence from large cross-country samples
by Rati Ram - 491-492 Andreas Bergh and Rolf Höijer, eds., Institutional Competition
by Randall Holcombe - 493-494 Wilfried Ver Eecke. Ethical Dimensions of the Economy: Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods
by Randall Holcombe
January 2009, Volume 138, Issue 1
- 1-2 Rejoinder to “The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment”
by Justin Buchler - 3-8 How to avoid transferring a valuable asset
by Sam Bucovetsky & Amihai Glazer - 9-27 The disadvantaged incumbents: estimating incumbency effects in Indian state legislatures
by Yogesh Uppal - 29-44 Dictators, development, and the virtue of political instability
by Ronen Bar-El - 45-64 Pre-electoral commitments and government formation
by Marc Debus - 65-81 Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
by César Calderón & Alberto Chong - 83-95 False advertising and experience goods: the case of political services in the U.S. senate
by Franklin Mixon & Rand Ressler & M. Gibson - 97-108 Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: an empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting
by David Laband & Ram Pandit & John Sophocleus & Anne Laband - 109-136 Does Wal-Mart reduce social capital?
by Art Carden & Charles Courtemanche & Jeremy Meiners - 137-160 Ideologies, vested interest groups, and postal saving privatization in Japan
by Masami Imai - 161-169 Public goods, group size, and the degree of rivalry
by Paul Pecorino - 171-197 Non-voted ballots, the cost of voting, and race
by John Lott - 199-216 Voluntary contributions with imperfect information: An experimental study
by M. Levati & Andrea Morone & Annamaria Fiore - 217-219 The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment
by Randall Holcombe - 221-238 Individual campaign contributions and candidate ideology
by Michael Ensley - 239-253 Voting on income tax exemptions
by Salvatore Barbaro & Jens Suedekum - 255-256 Magnus Henrekson and Robin Douhan: The political economy of entrepreneurship, 2 vols
by Randall Holcombe - 257-258 Johann Graf Lambsdorff, The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy
by Friedrich Schneider - 259-261 Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe, eds., The Economics of Transparency in Politics
by Christopher Coyne
December 2008, Volume 137, Issue 3
- 429-438 Homo economicus and homo politicus: an introduction
by Geoffrey Brennan - 439-450 Is the political realm more encompassing than the economic realm?
by Tracy Strong - 451-461 Passions and interests revisited: the psychological foundations of economics and politics
by Ruth Grant - 463-468 Are homo economicus and homo politicus identical twins?
by Russell Hardin - 469-474 In search of homunculus politicus
by James Buchanan - 475-489 Psychological dimensions in voter choice
by Geoffrey Brennan - 491-505 Brief lives: economic life and political life in the history of economic thought
by Shannon Stimson & Murray Milgate - 507-522 Economic choice, political decision, and the problem of limits
by Michael Munger - 523-524 Afterword
by Michael Gillespie
October 2008, Volume 137, Issue 1
- 1-10 Implications of the ‘bread and peace’ model for the 2008 US presidential election
by Douglas Hibbs - 11-19 Why does government produce national defense?
by Randall Holcombe - 21-41 The European Commission–Appointment, preferences, and institutional relations
by Stefan Napel & Mika Widgrén - 43-55 Can we insure against political uncertainty? Evidence from the U.S. stock market
by Andrea Mattozzi - 57-80 Public spending interactions and local politics. Empirical evidence from French municipalities
by Martial Foucault & Thierry Madies & Sonia Paty - 81-102 International migration and the role of institutions
by Graziella Bertocchi & Chiara Strozzi - 103-117 Bribery and public procurement: an experimental study
by Susanne Büchner & Andreas Freytag & Luis González & Werner Güth - 119-126 The fiscal effects of statehood: New Mexico and Arizona, 1903–1919
by Stephanie Moussalli - 127-143 Correlated payoffs in the inspection game: some theory and an application to corruption
by Tim Friehe - 145-171 The political economy of IMF forecasts
by Axel Dreher & Silvia Marchesi & James Vreeland - 173-195 Elemental tests of the traditional rational voting model
by Darren Grant & Michael Toma - 197-206 Optimal central banker contracts and common agency: a comment
by Juan Campoy & Juan Negrete - 207-220 Selecting the Condorcet Winner: single-stage versus multi-stage voting rules
by Michael Peress - 221-244 What’s in a poll? Incentives for truthful reporting in pre-election opinion surveys
by Jeremy Burke & Curtis Taylor - 245-278 Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample
by Konstantinos Angelopoulos & Apostolis Philippopoulos & Efthymios Tsionas - 279-299 Bringing home the bacon: an empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics
by Andrew Leigh - 301-314 Fiscal policy and reelection in Brazilian municipalities
by Sergio Sakurai & Naercio Menezes-Filho - 315-328 Surprise party
by Robert Grafstein & Kiki Caruson - 329-345 Separation of powers and political budget cycles
by Alejandro Saporiti & Jorge Streb - 347-368 Ideological extremism and electoral design. Multimember versus single member districts
by Anthony Bertelli & Lilliard Richardson - 369-401 Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons
by J. Ferris & Soo-Bin Park & Stanley Winer - 403-426 Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification
by Shin-Hwan Chiang & Ahmed Mahmud - 427-428 New publications in fiscal sociology
by Jürgen Backhaus
September 2008, Volume 136, Issue 3
- 255-267 Political fragmentation, fiscal deficits and political institutionalisation
by Robert Elgie & Iain McMenamin - 269-282 The institutions of economic freedom and entrepreneurship: evidence from panel data
by Kristina Nyström - 283-291 Efforts in two-sided contests
by Gil Epstein & Shmuel Nitzan & Mordechai Schwarz - 293-313 Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention
by Keith Dougherty & Jac Heckelman - 315-330 The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don’t the rabble expropriate the rich?
by Alex Coram - 331-351 Delayed privatization
by Bernardo Bortolotti & Paolo Pinotti - 353-377 Parliamentary procedure: principal forms and political effects
by Thomas Schwartz - 379-396 Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia in EMU
by Mark Hallerberg & Guntram Wolff - 397-409 Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking
by Roger Faith & Brian Goff & Robert Tollison - 411-427 Political distortions in state forecasts
by Richard Boylan - 429-445 Per-capita public expenditures and population size: a non-parametric analysis using French data
by Robert Breunig & Yvon Rocaboy - 447-456 A welfare simulation of mixed-member electoral systems
by Jin-Hyuk Kim - 457-473 The impact of government structure on local public expenditures
by Lynn MacDonald - 475-495 Public sector efficiency: the roles of political and budgetary institutions, fiscal capacity, and democratic participation
by Lars-Erik Borge & Torberg Falch & Per Tovmo - 497-500 Christopher J. Coyne: After war: the political economy of exporting democracy
by William Shughart
July 2008, Volume 136, Issue 1
- 1-17 Mr. Smith and the economy: the influence of economic conditions on individual legislator voting
by Edward López & Carlos Ramírez - 19-37 Paying the partners
by T. Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 39-54 How to make a dis-entrepreneur of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur: the impact of institutional settings on growth
by Giuseppe Eusepi & Edgar Wilson - 55-67 Biased contests
by Matthias Dahm & Nicolás Porteiro - 69-86 A simple way of estimating interest group ideology
by Amy McKay - 87-101 Does restricting choice in referenda enable governments to spend more?
by Randall Holcombe & Lawrence Kenny - 103-122 Can tax evasion tame Leviathan governments?
by Frode Brevik & Manfred Gärtner - 123-138 Do fiscal rules cause budgetary outcomes?
by Signe Krogstrup & Sébastien Wälti - 139-164 Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis
by Axel Dreher & Peter Nunnenkamp & Rainer Thiele - 165-180 Bargaining in the appointment process, constrained delegation and the political weight of the Senate
by Aggey Semenov - 181-200 Auctions or grandfathering: the political economy of tradable emission permits
by Yu-Bong Lai - 201-213 A distributive N-amendment game with endogenous agenda formation
by Elizabeth Penn - 215-239 Selling favors in the lab: experiments on campaign finance reform
by Daniel Houser & Thomas Stratmann - 241-244 Adrian Vermeule. Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small
by Christopher Coyne - 245-247 Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, & Thomas E. Flanagan, eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
by Edward Stringham - 249-251 Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin (eds.): Democracy, Freedom, and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach
by Benjamin Powell - 253-254 John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia, Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey’s Most Influential Writings
by Arthur Denzau & Ravi Roy
June 2008, Volume 135, Issue 3
- 89-90 The vote motive
by Gordon Tullock - 91-107 Using state-level simulations in a political economy model of US trade policy
by Hugh Arce & Robert Koopman & Marinos Tsigas - 109-123 How does ideology matter in the spatial model of voting?
by Garrett Beeler Asay - 125-130 A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions
by Hao Jia - 131-150 Partisan politics and stock market performance: The effect of expected government partisanship on stock returns in the 2002 German federal election
by Roland Füss & Michael Bechtel - 151-164 Liberalization and rent-seeking in China’s labor market
by John Bishop & Haiyong Liu - 165-182 The second-order dilemma of public goods and capital accumulation
by Akira Okada - 183-205 Political freedom, economic freedom, and income convergence: Do stages of economic development matter?
by Zhenhui Xu & Haizheng Li - 207-223 Political instability and inflation volatility
by Ari Aisen & Francisco Veiga - 225-236 Rent-seeking contests with incomplete information
by Mark Fey - 237-255 Going once, going twice, sold! The committee assignment process as an all-pay auction
by Daniel Lee - 257-276 Social preferences and private provision of public goods: A ‘double critical mass’ model
by Angelo Antoci & Pier Sacco & Luca Zarri - 277-289 Step return versus net reward in the voluntary provision of a threshold public good: An adversarial collaboration
by Charles Cadsby & Rachel Croson & Melanie Marks & Elizabeth Maynes - 291-300 Influencing rent-seeking contests
by Robert Ritz - 301-317 Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence?
by Benny Geys & Jan Vermeir - 319-336 Supersized votes: ballot length, uncertainty, and choice in direct legislation elections
by Peter Selb - 337-352 US presidential elections and real GDP growth, 1961–2004
by Kevin Grier - 353-373 Making the first move
by Hanna Bäck & Patrick Dumont - 375-397 The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror
by Jean-Paul Azam & Véronique Thelen - 399-413 Functional unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment
by William Heller & K. Sieberg - 415-448 Trending economic factors and the structure of Congress in the growth of government, 1930–2002
by Stanley Winer & Michael Tofias & Bernard Grofman & John Aldrich - 449-468 Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political business cycle?
by J. Ferris - 469-484 Swing and a myth: a review of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter
by Loren Lomasky - 485-487 Reflections on Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter
by Gordon Tullock - 489-492 John Samples. The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
by William Anderson - 493-496 Peter Emerson, ed., Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy: Consensual Voting Procedures For Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees
by Joel Parker - 497-499 Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad (Eds.) Institutions and Norms in Economic Development
by Mwangi Kimenyi - 501-503 Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (eds.): Political competition and economic regulation
by Horst Feldmann
April 2008, Volume 135, Issue 1
- 1-2 Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to spontaneous order studies
by Peter Boettke - 3-10 Maximizing behavior & market forces: the microfoundations of spontaneous order theorizing in Gordon Tullock’s contributions to Smithian political economy
by Peter Boettke - 11-22 The Politics of Bureaucracy and the failure of post-war reconstruction
by Christopher Coyne - 23-34 Gordon Tullock’s The Organization of Inquiry: A critical appraisal
by Bruce Caldwell - 35-53 Spontaneous order and the common law: Gordon Tullock’s critique
by Todd Zywicki - 55-66 Finding social dilemma: West of Babel, not east of Eden
by Richard Wagner - 67-78 Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order
by Peter Leeson - 79-88 Thinking about order without thought: the lifetime contributions of Gordon Tullock
by Michael Munger
March 2008, Volume 134, Issue 3
- 139-146 Rational benevolence in small committees
by Derek Clark & Christian Riis - 147-161 What makes fiscal consolidations last? A survival analysis of budget cuts in Europe (1960–2004)
by Reyes Illera & Carlos Mulas-Granados - 163-178 Public pensions and return migration
by Tim Krieger - 179-199 Extension of the portfolio allocation model to surplus majority governments: a fuzzy approach
by Terry Clark & Jennifer Larson & John Mordeson & Mark Wierman - 201-229 The political legislation cycle
by Francesco Lagona & Fabio Padovano - 231-246 A power measure analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado
by Claus Beisbart & Luc Bovens - 247-254 Voting to anger and to please others
by Amihai Glazer - 255-262 The optimal jury size when jury deliberation follows a random walk
by Eric Helland & Yaron Raviv - 263-292 The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data
by Axel Dreher & Jan-Egbert Sturm & Heinrich Ursprung - 293-305 The extent of the population paradox in the Hungarian electoral system
by Attila Tasnádi - 307-328 Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence
by Christian Bjørnskov & Nicolai Foss - 329-346 Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states
by Nathan Ashby & Russell Sobel - 347-366 Provoking a civil war
by Lorenzo Rocco & Zié Ballo - 367-389 An economic or political Kuznets curve?
by Henry Tam