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March 2007, Volume 130, Issue 3
- 457-470 Esteem-based contributions and optimality in public goods supply
by Geoffrey Brennan & Michael Brooks - 471-493 Transparency, wages, and the separation of powers: An experimental analysis of corruption
by Omar Azfar & William Nelson - 495-497 Michael Bacharach, Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxiii + 214 pages. USD 35.00 (cloth)
by Roy Gardner - 499-501 Gordon Tullock, Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005, 153 + vii pp., 2005. USD 75.00 (cloth)
by Daniel Sutter - 503-503 Pivotal power brokers: Theory and evidence on political fundraising
by Franklin Mixon & Chena Crocker & H. Black
January 2007, Volume 130, Issue 1
- 1-21 Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison
by Christian Bjørnskov - 23-40 An explanation of the continuing federal government mandate of single-member congressional districts
by Stephen Calabrese - 41-53 Efficient anarchy
by Peter Leeson - 55-77 Another look at anti-scalping laws: Theory and evidence
by Craig Depken - 79-98 Independent and competing agencies: An effective way to control government
by Reiner Eichenberger & Mark Schelker - 99-114 The tulipmania: Fact or artifact?
by Earl Thompson - 115-128 Why feed the Leviathan?
by Pablo Guillen & Christiane Schwieren & Gianandrea Staffiero - 129-135 A comment on Baron and Ferejohn (1989): The Open Rule Equilibrium and Coalition Formation
by David Primo - 137-162 Do politicians’ preferences correspond to those of the voters? An investigation of political representation
by Hanna Ågren & Matz Dahlberg & Eva Mörk - 163-177 An Empirical Note on Economic Freedom and Income Inequality
by John Carter - 179-207 The Smallpox Eradication Game
by Scott Barrett - 209-223 The debt wish: Rent seeking by business groups and the structure of corporate borrowing in India
by Sumit Majumdar & Kunal Sen - 225-237 The outcome-prediction strategy in cases denied certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court
by Saul Brenner & Joseph Whitmeyer & Harold Spaeth - 239-242 Mathias Kifmann on “health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?”
by Wolfram Richter - 243-243 Health insurance in a democracy: A reply to Richter
by Mathias Kifmann - 245-247 Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence
by Peter Leeson - 249-250 Understanding Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice
by Edward López
December 2006, Volume 129, Issue 3
- 249-262 Does the Fed Contribute to a Political Business Cycle?
by Burton Abrams & Plamen Iossifov - 263-300 Campaign finance reform and electoral competition
by John Lott - 301-313 Appeasing nihilists? Some economic thoughts on reducing terrorist activity
by Jan Schnellenbach - 315-319 Note on rent-seeking and committees using a proportionate-sharing rule
by Alan Lockard - 321-322 The Design of Rent-Seeking Competitions: Committees, Preliminary, and Final Contests: Corrigendum
by J. Amegashie - 323-352 The strategic advantage of interdependent preferences in rent-seeking contests
by T. Guse & B. Hehenkamp - 353-368 Contests with an unknown number of contestants
by Johannes Münster - 369-380 Rent-seeking with asymmetric valuations: Addition or deletion of a player
by Alexander Matros - 381-398 Public choice principles of redistricting
by Thomas Gilligan & John Matsusaka - 399-415 Community size, heterogeneity and voter turnouts
by Serguei Kaniovski & Dennis Mueller - 417-434 An experimental analysis of voting in the Stability and Growth Pact in the European Monetary Union
by Bernd Irlenbusch & Matthias Sutter - 435-460 Do elections lead to informed public decisions?
by Otto Swank & Bauke Visser - 461-474 Contribution limits and the effectiveness of campaign spending
by Thomas Stratmann - 475-486 Rent-seeking with scarce talent: A model of preemptive hiring
by Sami Dakhlia & Paul Pecorino - 487-506 Local government internal structure, external constraints and the median voter
by Geoffrey Turnbull & Gyusuck Geon - 507-510 Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes
by Randall Holcombe - 511-514 Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
by Scott Page
October 2006, Volume 129, Issue 1
- 1-23 Endogenous timing of contest with asymmetric information
by Qiang Fu - 25-40 Media scrutiny and the quality of public officials
by Daniel Sutter - 41-60 Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns
by Eric Borgne & Ben Lockwood - 61-75 Is compulsory voting more democratic?
by Keith Jakee & Guang-Zhen Sun - 77-105 Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of the Turkish Parliamentary and Local Election Results Between 1950 and 2004
by Ali Akarca & Aysit Tansel - 107-130 The political economy of the European customs classification
by Samia Tavares - 131-157 Politics of Environmental Law: Political Ideology, Elitism or Urban-Rural Interests?
by William Anderson & Daniel Mizak - 159-167 All voting is strategic
by James Buchanan & Yong Yoon - 169-187 A computational electoral competition model with social clustering and endogenous interest groups as information brokers
by Vjollca Sadiraj & Jan Tuinstra & Frans Winden - 189-200 Policy innovation in local jurisdictions: Testing for neighborhood influence in school choice policies
by Johannes Rincke - 201-215 Does democracy “suffer” from diversity? Issue representation and diversity in senate elections
by Benjamin Bishin & Jay Dow & James Adams - 217-231 Optimal contest design, closeness and the contest success function
by Marco Runkel - 233-237 Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes
by R. Coats - 239-241 Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities & Limits of Reform
by Brendan Nyhan - 243-246 Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy
by Cathérine Gamper - 247-248 Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of the Federal Open Market Committee
by Kevin Grier
September 2006, Volume 128, Issue 3
- 357-359 In memoriam: Otto “Toby” Davis, 1934–2006
by Melvin Hinich & Michael Munger - 361-366 Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election
by Steven Brams & Michael Hansen & Michael Orrison - 367-381 How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy
by Bryan Caplan - 383-405 Everyone likes a winner: An empirical test of the effect of electoral closeness on turnout in a context of expressive voting
by John Ashworth & Benny Geys & Bruno Heyndels - 407-431 Do fiscal rules dampen the political business cycle?
by Shanna Rose - 433-455 The committee assignment process as an optimal contracting problem
by Joseph McGarrity - 457-476 Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse
by Katharina Wick & Erwin Bulte - 477-498 Vertical Competition in the Spanish National Health System (NHS)
by Joan Costa-Font & Ana Rico - 499-500 A Life Reexamined
by Michael Munger - 501-503 To Form a More Perfect Union: A new economic interpretation of the United States Constitution
by Keith Dougherty - 505-509 For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy
by Lars Feld
July 2006, Volume 128, Issue 1
- 1-6 Terrorist Attacks on Western Civilization
by Charles Rowley - 7-39 An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000
by William Shughart - 41-75 The Israel and Palestine land settlement problem: An analytical history, 4000 B.C.E.–1948 C.E
by Charles Rowley & Jennis Taylor - 77-90 The Israel and Palestine land settlement problem, 1948–2005: An analytical history
by Charles Rowley & Jennis Taylor - 91-107 Terrorism: The relevance of the rational choice model
by Bryan Caplan - 109-129 Religious extremism: The good, the bad, and the deadly
by Laurence Iannaccone & Eli Berman - 131-146 Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of terrorist recruitment: The role of culture
by Michael Munger - 147-168 A law and economics perspective on terrorism
by Nuno Garoupa & Jonathan Klick & Francesco Parisi - 169-195 Extremism, suicide terror, and authoritarianism
by Ronald Wintrobe - 197-219 Institutional change in the absence of the rule of law and market mechanisms
by Anne Rathbone Bradley - 221-231 International political system, supreme values and terrorism
by Peter Bernholz - 233-244 Terrorism as theater: Analysis and policy implications
by Tyler Cowen - 245-255 Hiding in plain sight – using signals to detect terrorists
by Atin Basuchoudhary & Laura Razzolini - 257-274 Designing real terrorism futures
by Robin Hanson - 275-287 Terrorism and pork-barrel spending
by R. Coats & Gökhan Karahan & Robert Tollison - 289-315 The political economy of freedom, democracy and transnational terrorism
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Mogens Justesen & Robert Klemmensen - 317-349 Terrorized economies
by Nicole Crain & W. Crain - 351-356 The several costs of responding to the threat of terrorism
by William Niskanen
June 2006, Volume 127, Issue 3
- 245-250 The normative turn in public choice
by Steven Brams - 251-265 An economic analysis of voting in Sweden
by Henrik Jordahl - 267-284 Political authority, expertise and government bureaucracies
by Miltiadis Makris - 285-303 Voting power and voting blocs
by Dennis Leech & Robert Leech - 305-319 Information is important to Condorcet jurors
by Ruth Ben-Yashar - 321-343 Political geography
by Federico Etro - 345-366 Political competition when media create candidates’ charisma
by Ascensión Andina-Díaz - 367-383 Supreme Court consensus and dissent: Estimating the role of the selection screen
by Brian Goff - 385-405 Market Failures and Government Failures: A Theoretical Model of the Common Agricultural Policy
by Peter Nedergaard - 407-427 The Effects of Regional Sizing on Growth
by Santiago Lago-Peñas & Bruno Ventelou - 429-441 Do supermajority rules limit or enhance majority tyranny? evidence from the US States, 1960–1997
by John Bradbury & Joseph Johnson - 443-459 Government Size and Unemployment: Evidence from Industrial Countries
by Horst Feldmann - 461-483 The impact of closeness on turnout: An empirical relation based on a study of a two-round ballot
by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar & Abel François - 485-489 Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya
by Michael Munger - 491-494 The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
by Edward Tower
April 2006, Volume 127, Issue 1
- 1-3 William C. Mitchell: In memoriam
by Randy Simmons - 5-30 The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe
by Roger Congleton - 31-53 Katrinanomics: The politics and economics of disaster relief
by William Shughart - 55-73 Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis
by Russell Sobel & Peter Leeson - 75-95 Local government consolidations: The impact of political transaction costs
by Rune Sørensen - 97-121 Presidential Power over Supreme Court Decisions
by Joseph Whitmeyer - 123-132 Activity and inactivity in a rent-seeking contest with private information
by Lambert Schoonbeek & Barbara Winkel - 133-145 Leviathan in the Crosshairs
by Laurie Bates & Rexford Santerre - 147-175 Can the two new aid-growth models be replicated?
by Peter Jensen & Martin Paldam - 177-206 Competition policy for elections: Do campaign contribution limits matter?
by Thomas Stratmann & Francisco J. & Aparicio-Castillo - 207-223 Using state polls to forecast U.S. Presidential election outcomes
by Souren Soumbatiants & Henry Chappell & Eric Johnson - 225-229 Social dynamics
by Adam Gifford - 231-234 Fairness versus welfare
by Paul Rubin - 235-240 The economic effects of constitutions
by Michael Reksulak - 241-243 The Political Economy of Expertise: Information and Efficiency in American National Politics
by James Hamilton
January 2006, Volume 126, Issue 1
- 1-26 Voting by proxy
by Dan Alger - 27-43 Strategy-proof voting for single issues and cabinets
by Stefan Maus & Hans Peters & Ton Storcken - 45-73 Consumer capture of regulatory institutions: The creation of public utility consumer advocates in the United States
by Guy Holburn & Richard Bergh - 75-85 Fiscal consequences of public corruption: Empirical evidence from state bond ratings
by Craig Depken & Courtney Lafountain - 87-106 Corrupt political jurisdictions and voter participation
by Gökhan Karahan & R. Coats & William Shughart - 107-134 The political economics of not paying taxes
by Jesper Roine - 135-144 A contest success function with a tractable noise parameter
by J. Amegashie - 145-176 The effects of party competition on budget outcomes: Empirical evidence from local governments in Spain
by Albert Solé-Ollé - 177-199 State budget stabilization fund adoption: Preparing for the next recession or circumventing fiscal constraints?
by Gary Wagner & Russell Sobel - 201-224 The political economy of mass privatisation and imperfect taxation: Winners and loosers
by Rudiger Ahrend & Carlos Winograd - 225-256 Empirical determinants of corruption: A sensitivity analysis
by Danila Serra
December 2005, Volume 125, Issue 3
- 247-269 Policy making in divided government: A pivotal actors model with party discipline
by Josep Colomer - 271-303 Interest group size dynamics and policymaking
by Vjollca Sadiraj & Jan Tuinstra & Frans Winden - 305-337 Reforms, lobbies and welfare: A common agency approach
by Cecilia Testa - 339-361 Endogenous changes in the exchange rate regime: A bureaucratic incentive model
by Iljoong Kim & Inbae Kim - 363-383 The influence of local and national economic conditions on French legislative elections
by Antoine Auberger & Eric Dubois - 385-407 Legislative district configurations and fiscal policy in American States
by John Bradbury & W. Crain - 409-429 A partisan model of government expenditure
by Thomas Bräuninger - 431-444 The limits of `independence' and the policy of the ECB^
by James Forder - 445-470 Political instability and growth in dictatorships
by Jody Overland & Kenneth Simons & Michael Spagat - 471-475 Gerry Mackie, Democracy defended. Contemporary Political Theory, ed. by Ian Shapiro
by Peter Stone - 477-480 John R. Lott, Jr., The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control is Wrong. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003. 349 pages. USD 27.95 (cloth)
by Dennis Coates - 481-485 Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova, Designing federalism: A theory of self-sustainable federal institutions
by Michael Alexeev
July 2005, Volume 125, Issue 1
- 1-15 Time inconsistency of monetary policy: Empirical evidence from polls
by Michael Berlemann - 17-41 A critical reappraisal of some voting power paradoxes
by Annick Laruelle & Federico Valenciano - 43-65 Assessing the citizen – candidate model
by Dan Usher - 67-94 Forming stable coalitions: The process matters
by Steven Brams & Michael Jones & D. Kilgour - 95-127 The effect of membership rules and voting schemes on the success of international climate agreements
by Michael Finus & Juan-Carlos Altamirano-Cabrera & Ekko Ierland - 129-149 Salience: Agenda choices by competing candidates
by Marcus Berliant & Hideo Konishi - 151-170 Unanimous constitutional consent and the immigration problem
by Stefan Josten & Klaus Zimmermann - 171-188 Tax morale and (de-)centralization: An experimental study
by Werner Güth & Vittoria Levati & Rupert Sausgruber - 189-202 Rigging elections with violence
by Ashish Chaturvedi - 203-213 Public choice and political philosophy: Reflections on the works of Gordon Spinoza and David Immanuel Buchanan
by Hartmut Kliemt - 215-228 Election campaigns, agenda setting and electoral outcomes
by Manfred Holler & Peter Skott - 229-234 Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
by William Shughart - 235-238 Appointing central bankers: The politics of monetary policy in the United States and the European Monetary Union. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
by Mark Toma - 239-242 Economic welfare, international business and global institutional change
by Shawn Humphrey - 243-245 Signaling goodness: Social rules and public choice
by David Laband
September 2005, Volume 124, Issue 3
- 249-266 Non-binding linked-issues referenda: Analysis and an application
by Timo Goeschl - 267-282 “Public goods”: An exercise in calibration
by John Hudson & Philip Jones - 283-308 Health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?
by Mathias Kifmann - 309-328 Symmetric two-stage contests with budget constraints
by William Stein & Amnon Rapoport - 329-352 Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation:
by Martin Bodenstein & Heinrich Ursprung - 353-364 The tragedy of the political commons: Evidence from U.S. Senate roll call votes on environmental legislation
by Anwar Hussain & David Laband - 365-382 Valence characteristics, costly policy and the median-crossing property: A diagrammatic exposition
by Donald Wittman - 383-390 The dual illusion of grants-in-aid on central and local expenditures: A reply
by Robert Logan & Yeung-Nan Shieh - 391-409 The credibility of monetary reform – New evidence
by Andreas Freytag - 411-422 Rents, dissipation and lost treasures: Rethinking Tullock's paradox
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Francesco Parisi - 423-436 Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy
by Anthony Heyes & Catherine Liston-Heyes - 437-451 Self-deception as the root of political failure
by Tyler Cowen - 453-480 Macroeconomic conditions and committee re-election rates
by Joseph McGarrity - 481-484 James T. Bennett, Tax-Funded Politics. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 204 pages. USD 29.95 (cloth)
by William Shughart - 485-487 Pascal Boyer,Explaining religion: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. New York: Basic Books, 2001
by Kenneth Greene
July 2005, Volume 124, Issue 1
- 1-18 Public choice in the new century
by William Shughart & Robert Tollison - 19-31 Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum
by James Buchanan - 33-56 Fragmenting parchment and the winds of war: The Constitution of the United States, 1860–2004
by Charles Rowley - 57-73 Constitutional political economy in the European Union
by Dennis Mueller - 75-93 Collective versus unilateral responses to terrorism
by Todd Sandler - 95-114 Government growth in the twenty-first century
by Randall Holcombe - 115-133 Nineteenth-century voting procedures in a twenty-first century world
by Michael Munger - 135-156 Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature
by Thomas Stratmann - 157-177 The eclipse of legislatures: Direct democracy in the 21st century
by John Matsusaka - 179-204 Corporations, collective action and corporate governance: One size does not fit all
by J. Mulherin - 205-222 The public choice of educational choice
by Lawrence Kenny - 223-236 Public choice and tort reform
by Paul Rubin - 237-247 The unfinished business of public choice
by William Shughart & Robert Tollison
June 2005, Volume 123, Issue 3
- 253-273 Democracy as an equilibrium
by Adam Przeworski - 275-319 What does the European Union do?
by Alberto Alesina & Ignazio Angeloni & Ludger Schuknecht - 321-347 Public sector efficiency: An international comparison
by António Afonso & Ludger Schuknecht & Vito Tanzi - 349-361 The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000
by John Lott - 363-392 Why chads? Determinants of voting equipment use in the United States
by Phillip Garner & Enrico Spolaore - 393-410 From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else
by Daowei Zhang & David Laband - 411-438 Soft money and hard choices: Why political parties might legislate against soft money donations
by David Gill & Christine Lipsmeyer - 439-462 Evidence on the importance of spatial voting models in presidential nominations and elections
by Lawrence Kenny & Babak Lotfinia - 463-476 The robustness of Kingma’s crowd-out estimate: Evidence from new data on contributions to public radio
by Sonia Manzoor & John Straub - 477-493 Pivotal power brokers: Theory and evidence on political fundraising
by Franklin Mixon & Chena Crocker & H. Black
April 2005, Volume 123, Issue 1
- 1-18 Thinking About the Political Impacts of the Electoral College
by Bernard Grofman & Scott Feld - 19-37 In Play: A Commentary on Strategies in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
by Jennifer Merolla & Michael Munger & Michael Tofias - 39-47 The Effect of Voting Technology on Voter Turnout: Do Computers Scare the Elderly?
by Gary Roseman & E. Stephenson - 49-58 Problems of Voting
by Gordon Tullock - 59-93 Production and Conflict Models Versus Rent-Seeking Models
by Kjell Hausken - 95-113 The Political Determinants of Federal Expenditure at the State Level
by Gary Hoover & Paul Pecorino - 115-131 Working Well with Others: The Evolution of Teamwork and Ethics
by Daniel Arce M. & L. Gunn - 133-146 Does Political Ideology Affect Economic Growth?
by Christian Bjørnskov