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March 2018, Volume 174, Issue 3
- 335-349 Budget institutions and taxation
by Lasse Aaskoven - 351-405 The Grecian horse: does immigration lead to the deterioration of American institutions?
by Alexandre Padilla & Nicolás Cachanosky - 407-409 Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner: Public debt: an illusion of democratic political economy
by Alexander William Salter - 411-414 Vlad Tarko, Elinor Ostrom: An intellectual biography
by Bobbi Herzberg
January 2018, Volume 174, Issue 1
- 3-21 Choosing a media outlet when seeking public approval
by Saltuk Ozerturk - 23-40 Can behavioral economists improve economic rationality?
by Dwight R. Lee & J. R. Clark - 41-60 These rules are made for spending: testing and extending the law of 1/n
by Germà Bel & Ringa Raudla & Miguel Rodrigues & António F. Tavares - 61-80 Gaining new insights by going local: determinants of coalition formation in mixed democratic polities
by Martin Gross & Marc Debus - 81-106 The politics of beer: analysis of the congressional votes on the beer bill of 1933
by Eline Poelmans & John A. Dove & Jason E. Taylor - 107-143 Public policy and the initiative and referendum: a survey with some new evidence
by John G. Matsusaka - 145-207 Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey
by Niklas Potrafke - 209-211 Peter T. Leeson: WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird
by David Skarbek
December 2017, Volume 173, Issue 3
- 251-265 Why noncompetitive states are so important for understanding the outcomes of competitive elections: the Electoral College 1868–2016
by Jonathan R. Cervas & Bernard Grofman - 267-288 Geometry of run-off elections
by Conal Duddy - 289-305 Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust
by Benny Geys & Salmai Qari - 307-323 An expressive voting model of anger, hatred, harm and shame
by Dwight R. Lee & Ryan H. Murphy - 325-343 The supermajority core of the US Senate and the failure to join the League of Nations
by Gyung-Ho Jeong - 345-367 The effect of legislature size on public spending: evidence from a regression discontinuity design
by Daniel Höhmann - 369-371 James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states
by Ennio E. Piano - 373-376 Christopher Freiman: Unequivocal justice
by Brian Kogelmann
October 2017, Volume 173, Issue 1
- 1-23 What drives public acceptance of reforms? Longitudinal evidence from a Dutch pension reform
by Jante Parlevliet - 25-41 Are voters cursed when politicians conceal policy preferences?
by Nichole Szembrot - 43-59 The downsides of information transmission and voting
by Keith E. Schnakenberg - 61-89 Cracking the whip: spatial voting with party discipline and voter polarization
by T. D. P. Waters - 91-108 Closeness matters: monotonicity failure in IRV elections with three candidates
by Nicholas R. Miller - 109-130 Efficient bilateral taxation of externalities
by Nicolaus Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 131-144 Sequential contests revisited
by Marco Serena - 145-168 Reform of the United Nations Security Council: equity and efficiency
by Matthew Gould & Matthew D. Rablen - 169-200 Crafting consensus
by Jan Zápal - 201-216 Election outcomes under different ways to announce preferences: an analysis of the 2015 parliament election in the Austrian federal state of Styria
by Andreas Darmann & Julia Grundner & Christian Klamler - 217-240 The dark side of price cap regulation: a laboratory experiment
by Christoph Engel & Klaus Heine - 241-243 Richard E. Wagner: James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction
by Alexander William Salter - 245-248 Ian Kumekawa: The first serious optimist: A. C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics
by Peter J. Boettke - 249-250 Aris Trantidis: Clientelism and economic policy: Greece and the crisis
by Nick Cowen
September 2017, Volume 172, Issue 3
- 305-310 In memoriam: Gebhard Kirchgässner (April 15, 1948–April 1, 2017)
by Lars P. Feld - 311-331 Newspapers and political accountability: evidence from Japan
by Yukihiro Yazaki - 333-358 Lobbying, political connections and emergency lending by the Federal Reserve
by Benjamin M. Blau - 359-376 Unpacking pivotal politics: exploring the differential effects of the filibuster and veto pivots
by Thomas R. Gray & Jeffery A. Jenkins - 377-395 Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement
by Murat C. Mungan - 397-397 Erratum to: Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement
by Murat C. Mungan - 399-419 Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investigation into voting behavior
by Paulo Arvate & Sergio Mittlaender - 421-442 The ballot order effect is huge: evidence from Texas
by Darren Grant - 443-463 The political economy of churches in Denmark, 1300–2015
by Ella Paldam & Martin Paldam - 465-482 Risk aversion and bandwagon effect in the pivotal voter model
by Alberto Grillo - 483-500 More politicians, more corruption: evidence from Swedish municipalities
by Andreas Bergh & Günther Fink & Richard Öhrvall - 501-524 Mystifying but not misleading: when does political ambiguity not confuse voters?
by Maarten C. W. Janssen & Mariya Teteryatnikova - 525-544 Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives
by Zareh Asatryan & Annika Havlik & Frank Streif - 545-548 Walter Scheidel: The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century
by Mark Koyama - 549-552 Jared Rubin: Rulers, religion, and riches: Why the West got rich and the Middle East did not?
by Mark Koyama
July 2017, Volume 172, Issue 1
- 1-22 Quadratic voting and the public good: introduction
by Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl - 23-44 Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: a history
by Beatrice Cherrier & Jean-Baptiste Fleury - 45-73 Efficient collective decision-making, marginal cost pricing, and quadratic voting
by Nicolaus Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 75-107 The robustness of quadratic voting
by E. Glen Weyl - 109-124 Uncertainty, polarization, and proposal incentives under quadratic voting
by John W. Patty & Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 125-149 Who will vote quadratically? Voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting
by Louis Kaplow & Scott Duke Kominers - 151-175 Towards secure quadratic voting
by Sunoo Park & Ronald L. Rivest - 177-193 Quadratic voting as an input to cost-benefit analysis
by Jonathan S. Masur - 195-222 Ethical considerations on quadratic voting
by Ben Laurence & Itai Sher - 223-232 Equality, legitimacy, interests, and preferences: historical notes on Quadratic Voting in a political context
by Josiah Ober - 233-263 The relationship between the normalized gradient addition mechanism and quadratic voting
by Daniel Benjamin & Ori Heffetz & Miles Kimball & Derek Lougee - 265-282 Quadratic election law
by Eric A. Posner & Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos - 283-303 Quadratic voting in the wild: real people, real votes
by David Quarfoot & Douglas Kohorn & Kevin Slavin & Rory Sutherland & David Goldstein & Ellen Konar
June 2017, Volume 171, Issue 3
- 245-256 The scientific status of geometric models of choice and similarities judgment
by Keith T. Poole - 257-281 Political selection under alternative electoral rules
by Vincenzo Galasso & Tommaso Nannicini - 283-301 Free riders: the economics and organization of outlaw motorcycle gangs
by Ennio E. Piano - 303-321 Are marginals different? Evidence from British elections 1950–2015
by Caladan Barkovic-Parsons & Robert Hodgson & John Maloney - 323-329 Are two better than one? A note
by Ruth Ben-Yashar & Shmuel Nitzan - 331-358 Can extreme rainfall trigger democratic change? The role of flood-induced corruption
by Muhammad Habibur Rahman & Nejat Anbarci & Prasad Sankar Bhattacharya & Mehmet Ali Ulubaşoğlu - 359-387 Decentralization and the duration of fiscal consolidation: shifting the burden across layers of government
by Dirk Foremny & Agnese Sacchi & Simone Salotti - 389-408 Does emigration reduce corruption?
by Artjoms Ivlevs & Roswitha M. King - 409-427 Strategic gerontocracy: why nondemocratic systems produce older leaders
by Raul Magni Berton & Sophie Panel - 429-432 Cass R. Sunstein: The ethics of influence: government in the age of behavioral science
by Michael David Thomas
April 2017, Volume 171, Issue 1
- 1-5 Rest in peace, Bob Tollison
by William F. Shughart - 7-9 Memorial for Dad
by Mark Tollison - 11-15 Bob Tollison was a good sentence
by Robert E. McCormick - 17-22 Robert Tollison and operationalizing public choice
by Peter Boettke - 23-28 Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics
by Roger D. Congleton - 29-32 Robert’s Rules for a knowledge-creating society
by W. Mark Crain & Nicole V. Crain - 33-37 Robert D. Tollison: an appreciation
by William R. Dougan - 39-43 Memories of Bob Tollison: memories of a friendship
by Robert B. Ekelund - 45-47 In remembrance of Robert D. Tollison
by Dwight R. Lee - 49-51 Tollison and competition
by M. T. Maloney - 53-58 Bob Tollison: remarkable polymath and person
by Fred S. McChesney - 59-61 Tribute to Robert D. Tollison
by James C. Miller - 63-65 Robert D. Tollison: A remembrance
by Michael Munger - 67-70 Robert D. Tollison: Father of sportometrics, friend and colleague
by Raymond D. Sauer - 71-73 Bob Tollison, Adam Smith’s pin factory, and the flow of knowledge: a personal memory
by Bruce Yandle - 75-98 Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: evidence from Germany
by Thushyanthan Baskaran & Zohal Hessami - 99-117 The effect of a reduction in the opening hours of polling stations on turnout
by Sebastian Garmann - 119-143 Education, identity, and community: lessons from Jewish emancipation
by Jean-Paul Carvalho & Mark Koyama & Michael Sacks - 145-166 Rent creation and rent seeking in environmental policy
by Ian A. MacKenzie - 167-186 Regulatory capture in agency performance evaluation: industry expertise versus revolving-door lobbying
by Sounman Hong & Taek Kyu Kim - 187-206 Defecting alone or splitting together? Individual and collective party switching by legislators
by Özge Kemahlıoğlu & Sabri Sayarı - 207-221 The political economy of sales taxes and sales tax exemptions
by Thomas Stratmann - 223-241 Granting votes: exposing the political bias of intergovernmental grants using the within-between specification for panel data
by Josip Glaurdić & Vuk Vuković - 243-244 Randall G. Holcombe: Advanced introduction to public choice
by Christopher J. Coyne
March 2017, Volume 170, Issue 3
- 183-210 Provoking insurgency in a federal state: theory and application to India
by Jean-Paul Azam & Kartika Bhatia - 211-230 On the political economy of national tax revenue forecasts: evidence from OECD countries
by Beate Jochimsen & Robert Lehmann - 231-251 Using equations from power indices to analyze figure skating teams
by Diana Cheng & Peter Coughlin - 253-263 Minor candidates as kingmakers
by Akifumi Ishihara & Shintaro Miura - 265-288 The effect of school district and municipal government financial health information on local tax election outcomes: evidence from fiscal stress labels in Ohio
by Paul N. Thompson & Joseph Whitley - 289-321 Unraveling short- and farsightedness in politics
by Hans Gersbach & Oriana Ponta - 323-325 Per L. Bylund: The seen, the unseen, and the unrealized: how regulations affect our everyday lives
by David S. Lucas - 327-329 Mark Zachary Taylor, The politics of innovation: why some countries are better than others at science and technology
by Per L. Bylund
January 2017, Volume 170, Issue 1
- 1-32 Do European fiscal rules induce a bias in fiscal forecasts? Evidence from the Stability and Growth Pact
by Niels D. Gilbert & Jasper F.M. Jong - 33-62 Multiparty government and economic policy-making
by Hanna Bäck & Wolfgang C. Müller & Benjamin Nyblade - 63-78 The political economy of wage and price controls: evidence from the Nixon tapes
by Burton A. Abrams & James L. Butkiewicz - 79-97 Incumbent-challenger and open-seat elections in a spatial model of political competition
by Paul Redmond - 99-113 Paths to victory in presidential elections: the setup power of noncompetitive states
by Steven J. Brams & D. Marc Kilgour - 115-142 Inequality, extractive institutions, and growth in nondemocratic regimes
by Nobuhiro Mizuno & Katsuyuki Naito & Ryosuke Okazawa - 143-169 Voters’ responsiveness to public employment policies
by Marta Curto-Grau - 171-173 Jason Brennan, against democracy
by Alexander William Salter - 175-176 Branko Milanovic: Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization
by Robert A. Lawson - 177-180 Erratum to: Locating foreign aid commitments in response to political violence
by Paul Bezerra & Alex Braithwaite
December 2016, Volume 169, Issue 3
- 161-170 Political violence: an introduction
by Todd Sandler - 171-194 Terrorism and philanthropy: the effect of terror attacks on the scope of giving by individuals and households
by Claude Berrebi & Hanan Yonah - 195-206 Spatial spill-overs from terrorism on tourism: Western victims in Islamic destination countries
by Eric Neumayer & Thomas Plümper - 207-229 Ethnic inclusion, democracy, and terrorism
by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Sara M. T. Polo - 231-250 Terrorism’s effects on social capital in European countries
by Paschalis Arvanitidis & Athina Economou & Christos Kollias - 251-268 Oil and terrorism: an investigation of mediators
by James A. Piazza - 269-292 Refugee gravitation
by Jon Echevarria & Javier Gardeazabal - 293-313 When to expect a coup d’état? An extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants
by Martin Gassebner & Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt - 315-331 Conflicts and domestic bank lending
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Javed Younas - 333-355 Locating foreign aid commitments in response to political violence
by Paul Bezerra & Alex Braithwaite - 357-374 Decentralization, institutions, and maritime piracy
by Khusrav Gaibulloev & Todd Sandler - 375-393 The politicization of crime: electoral competition and the supply of maritime piracy in Indonesia
by Ursula E. Daxecker & Brandon C. Prins
October 2016, Volume 169, Issue 1
- 1-18 Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
by Bryan C. McCannon & Paul Walker - 19-51 Equitable representation in councils: theory and an application to the United Nations Security Council
by Matthew Gould & Matthew D. Rablen - 53-75 Supermajority rule and bicameral bargaining
by Dongwon Lee - 77-95 Identity voting
by Stephen Ansolabehere & M. Socorro Puy - 97-116 Multi-winner scoring election methods: Condorcet consistency and paradoxes
by Mostapha Diss & Ahmed Doghmi - 117-136 Electoral thresholds and political representation
by Thushyanthan Baskaran & Mariana Lopes da Fonseca - 137-159 Conflict, democracy and voter choice: a public choice analysis of the Athenian ostracism
by George Tridimas
September 2016, Volume 168, Issue 3
- 153-175 A positive theory of the predatory state
by Mehrdad Vahabi - 177-216 Opportunistic politicians and fiscal outcomes: the curious case of Vorarlberg
by Monika Köppl-Turyna - 217-238 Seniority, political experience, and support for government spending in the US House: a culture of spending?
by James C. Garand & Rebekah Myers & Renee Renegar - 239-263 NIH biomedical funding: evidence of executive dominance in swing-voter states during presidential elections
by Alberto Batinti - 265-277 Plurality, approval, or Borda? A nineteenth century dispute on voting rules
by Eerik Lagerspetz - 279-311 Fiscal redistribution around elections when democracy is not “the only game in town”
by Pantelis Kammas & Vassilis Sarantides - 313-341 Seeing the forest through the trees: a meta-analysis of political budget cycles
by Andrew Q. Philips
July 2016, Volume 168, Issue 1
- 1-22 Fiscal forecasts and political systems: a legislative budgeting perspective
by Luisa Giuriato & Alessandra Cepparulo & Matteo Barberi - 23-42 Term limits, time horizons and electoral accountability
by J. Sebastian Leguizamon & George R. Crowley - 43-54 Evaluation of an informal rule for the allocation of sports capital funding
by John Considine & Justin Doran - 55-74 Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010
by Danko Tarabar & Joshua C. Hall - 75-102 What does it take for a roving bandit settle down? Theory and an illustrative history of the Visigoths
by Andrew T. Young - 103-114 Olson’s exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy: a reconsideration
by Wolfgang Buchholz & Todd Sandler - 115-135 Two types of participation failure under nine voting methods in variable electorates
by Dan S. Felsenthal & Hannu Nurmi - 137-152 Individual welfare and the group size paradox
by Paul Pecorino
June 2016, Volume 167, Issue 3
- 177-199 Taking versus taxing: an analysis of conscription in a private information economy
by Thomas Koch & Javier Birchenall - 201-219 Would you trust lobbies?
by Pierre Fauvet & Sébastien Rouillon - 221-243 An offer you can’t refuse: murdering journalists as an enforcement mechanism of corrupt deals
by Christian Bjørnskov & Andreas Freytag - 245-255 A note on majority rule and neutrality with an application to state votes at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
by Jac C. Heckelman - 257-276 Ballot order effects in direct democracy elections
by John G. Matsusaka - 277-289 Fiscal policymaking and the central bank institutional constraint Una Vez Más: New Latin American evidence
by Richard C. K. Burdekin & Leroy O. Laney - 291-293 Richard E. Wagner, Politics as a peculiar business insights from a theory of entangled political economy
by Alexander William Salter - 295-298 David Colander and Roland Kupers, Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up
by Abigail N. Devereaux
April 2016, Volume 167, Issue 1
- 1-20 Academic exclusion: some experiences
by Arye L. Hillman & Heinrich W. Ursprung - 21-35 Closed primaries versus top-two primaries
by Pablo Amorós & M. Socorro Puy & Ricardo Martínez - 37-45 Higher costs appeal to voters: implications of expressive voting
by J. R. Clark & Dwight R. Lee - 47-65 Do direct-democratic procedures lead to higher acceptance than political representation?
by Emanuel V. Towfigh & Sebastian J. Goerg & Andreas Glöckner & Philip Leifeld & Aniol Llorente-Saguer & Sophie Bade & Carlos Kurschilgen - 67-94 Competition in fragmentation among political coalitions: theory and evidence
by Benoît Le Maux & Yvon Rocaboy - 95-129 The politicization of UNESCO World Heritage decision making
by Enrico Bertacchini & Claudia Liuzza & Lynn Meskell & Donatella Saccone - 131-143 Bargaining complexity and the duration of government formation: evidence from Flemish municipalities
by Tom Blockmans & Benny Geys & Bruno Heyndels & Bram Mahieu - 145-171 Presidential unilateral action: partisan influence and presidential power
by Fang-Yi Chiou & Lawrence S. Rothenberg - 173-176 George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by Alexander C. Cartwright
March 2016, Volume 166, Issue 3
- 335-354 Blair disease? Business careers of the former democratic heads of state and government
by Alexander Baturo & Slava Mikhaylov - 355-378 Intra-party diversity and ministerial selection in coalition governments
by Hanna Bäck & Marc Debus & Wolfgang C. Müller
January 2016, Volume 166, Issue 1
- 3-28 Suicide attacks and religious cleavages
by Andra Filote & Niklas Potrafke & Heinrich Ursprung - 29-52 Antitrust exemptions for joint R&D improve patents
by Samuli Leppälä - 53-68 Tax limits and local elections
by Federico Revelli - 69-86 Capture and the bureaucratic mafia: does the revolving door erode bureaucratic integrity?
by Sounman Hong & Jeehun Lim - 87-111 Asserting presidential preferences in a regulatory review bureaucracy
by Dima Yazji Shamoun & Bruce Yandle - 113-142 Political leader survival: does competence matter?
by Shu Yu & Richard Jong-A-Pin - 143-160 Does forced voting result in political polarization?
by Fernanda Leite Lopez Leon & Renata Rizzi - 161-182 The perils of government enforcement
by Rustam Romaniuc & Katherine Farrow & Lisette Ibanez & Alain Marciano - 183-204 The volatility of median and supermajoritarian pivots in the U.S. Congress and the effects of party polarization
by Thomas L. Brunell & Bernard Grofman & Samuel Merrill - 205-233 Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods
by Federica Alberti & Edward J. Cartwright - 235-259 Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus
by Eric Dubois
December 2015, Volume 165, Issue 3
- 171-191 A tragedy of the anticommons: local option taxation and cell phone tax bills
by Matthew Mitchell & Thomas Stratmann - 193-210 The paradox of grading systems
by Steven Brams & Richard Potthoff - 211-238 Costly distribution and the non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas
by James Lake & Maia Linask - 239-261 Does electoral competition affect politicians’ trade policy preferences? Evidence from Japan
by Banri Ito - 263-284 Representation, neighboring districts, and party loyalty in the U.S. Congress
by Justin Kirkland & R. Williams - 285-306 A dynamic Duverger’s law
by Jean Forand & Vikram Maheshri - 307-309 Nina M. Moore: The political roots of racial thinking in American criminal justice
by Daniel D’Amico - 311-314 James Raymond Vreeland and Axel Dreher (eds.): The political economy of the United Nations Security Council: money and influence
by Jared Pincin - 315-317 Edward Peter Stringham: Private governance: creating order in economic and social life
by Michael Munger
October 2015, Volume 165, Issue 1
- 1-12 Condorcet polling can yield serendipitous clues about voter views
by Richard Potthoff & Michael Munger - 13-23 The paradox of information and voter turnout
by Joseph McMurray - 25-43 The Jeffords switch and legislator rolls in the U.S. Senate
by Chris Den Hartog & Nathan Monroe - 45-58 The monetary mechanism of stateless Somalia
by William Luther - 59-77 Corruption and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazilian municipalities
by Jamie Bologna & Amanda Ross - 79-96 Sovereignty as exchange of political property rights
by Alexander Salter - 97-102 A note on Poisson contests
by Nava Kahana & Doron Klunover - 103-122 Influence versus utility in the evaluation of voting rules: a new look at the Penrose formula
by Michel Breton & Karine Straeten - 123-145 Construction corrupts: empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries
by Andreas Kyriacou & Leonel Muinelo-Gallo & Oriol Roca-Sagalés - 147-164 The political economy of the Essential Air Service program
by Joshua Hall & Amanda Ross & Christopher Yencha - 165-167 Peter J. Boettke & Christopher J. Coyne (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Austrian economics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiii + 813 pp., USD 150.00 (cloth)
by Alexander Salter