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April 2014, Volume 159, Issue 1
- 277-298 The law & economics of private prosecutions in industrial revolution England
by Mark Koyama - 299-299 Erratum to: Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergence of the modern world
by Karen Clay - 301-303 Richard E. Wagner: Deficits, debt, and democracy: wrestling with tragedy on the fiscal commons
by Adam Martin - 305-307 Jeff D. Makholm: The political economy of pipelines: a century of comparative institutional development
by Robert Bradley - 309-311 John Tomasi: Free market fairness
by John Thrasher - 313-315 Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López: Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers: the economic engine of political change
by Michael Thomas - 317-320 Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty
by Atin Basuchoudhary
March 2014, Volume 158, Issue 3
- 297-310 Empirical social choice: an introduction
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 311-330 On the empirical relevance of Condorcet’s paradox
by Adrian Deemen - 331-357 Which voting rule is most likely to choose the “best” candidate?
by T. Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 359-382 An experimental study of the efficiency of unanimity rule and majority rule
by Keith Dougherty & Brian Pitts & Justin Moeller & Robi Ragan - 383-397 Cycles and instability in politics. Evidence from the 2009 Danish municipal elections
by Malthe Munkøe - 399-425 The Alternative Vote and Coombs Rule versus First-Past-the-Post: a social choice analysis of simulated data based on English elections, 1992–2010
by Nicholas Miller - 427-463 The variable choice set logit model applied to the 2004 Canadian election
by Maria Gallego & Norman Schofield & Kevin McAlister & Jee Jeon - 465-482 Modeling the effects of changing issue salience in two-party competition
by Scott Feld & Samuel Merrill & Bernard Grofman - 483-497 Picking a loser? A social choice perspective on the Danish government formation of 1975
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 499-511 Insincere voting under the successive procedure
by Bjørn Rasch - 513-523 A Danish killer amendment—when judicial review was banned from the 1849 Constitution
by Mogens Pedersen - 525-539 Coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969–2009
by Steven Brams & Gustavo Camilo & Alexandra Franz - 541-558 Sophisticated and myopic? Citizen preferences for Electoral College reform
by John Aldrich & Jason Reifler & Michael Munger - 559-576 Equilibrium institutions: the federal-proportional trade-off
by Josep Colomer - 577-588 Institutions, information, and faction: an experimental test of Riker’s federalism thesis for political parties
by John Aldrich & Michael Munger & Jason Reifler - 589-589 Erratum to: The Alternative Vote and Coombs Rule Versus First-Past-The-Post: A Social Choice Analysis of Simulated Data Based on English Elections, 1992–2010
by Nicholas Miller
January 2014, Volume 158, Issue 1
- 1-2 Betty Tillman
by Donald Boudreaux - 3-4 Betty Tillman: a remembrance
by Dwight Lee - 5-6 A tribute to Betty Tillman
by Richard McKenzie - 7-8 Remembering Betty Tillman
by Karen Vaughn - 9-10 Betty Tillman, a remembrance of times long ago
by Richard Wagner - 11-19 Property and markets in Elmer Kelton novels
by Randy Simmons - 21-38 The political economy of unfunded public pension liabilities
by Dashle Kelley - 39-49 Euvoluntariness and just market exchange: moral dilemmas from Locke’s Venditio
by Ricardo Guzmán & Michael Munger - 51-83 The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
by Axel Dreher & Matthew Gould & Matthew Rablen & James Vreeland - 85-100 Exchange, unanimity and consent: a defence of the public choice account of power
by John Meadowcroft - 101-120 Mixed equilibriums in a three-candidate spatial model with candidate valence
by Dimitrios Xefteris - 121-141 The devil is in the shadow. Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
by Axel Dreher & Pierre-Guillaume Méon & Friedrich Schneider - 143-165 The role of political partisanship during economic crises
by Vincenzo Galasso - 167-187 Do intergovernmental grants create ratchets in state and local taxes?
by Russell Sobel & George Crowley - 189-207 Can corruption foster regulatory compliance?
by Fabio Méndez - 209-220 Why do crises go to waste? Fiscal austerity and public service reform
by David Hugh-Jones - 221-242 Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages
by Li Han - 243-251 Taking dictatorship seriously: a reply to Quesada
by Greg Fried - 253-259 Taking alleged dictatorship more seriously: Rejoinder to Fried
by Antonio Quesada - 261-279 Law-and-economics: why Gordon Tullock prefers Napoleon Bonaparte over the Duke of Wellington; and why he may end up on St. Helena
by Jennis Biser - 281-283 Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergency of the modern world
by Karen Clay - 285-288 Gunnar Trumbull: Strength in numbers: the political power of weak interests
by George Crowley - 289-291 Ronald Coase, Ning Wang: How China became capitalist
by Nara Dillon & William Keech - 293-295 Allan H. Meltzer: why capitalism?
by Diana Thomas
December 2013, Volume 157, Issue 3
- 357-365 Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam
by Toke Aidt & Christian Bjørnskov & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Gert Svendsen - 367-385 The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years
by Michael Lewis-Beck & Mary Stegmaier - 387-410 Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence
by Jakob Haan & Jeroen Klomp - 411-428 Voting functions in the EU-15
by Linda Gonçalves Veiga - 429-448 Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections
by Rodrigo Martins & Francisco Veiga - 449-474 Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
by Mogens Justesen & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 475-509 Institutions and savings in developing and emerging economies
by Andreas Freytag & Sebastian Voll - 511-542 Democratization and the size of government: evidence from the long 19th century
by Toke Aidt & Peter Jensen - 543-567 The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy
by Désirée Teobaldelli & Friedrich Schneider - 569-584 Inter-country differences in voter satisfaction with the democratic process: a study of world elections
by Vani Borooah & Anastasios Katos & Eleni Katsouli - 585-599 Why does bureaucratic corruption occur in the EU?
by Urs Brandt & Gert Svendsen - 601-628 Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis
by Zohid Askarov & Hristos Doucouliagos - 629-639 Trust as an alternative to risk
by Eric Uslaner - 641-669 Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development?
by Christian Bjørnskov & Pierre-Guillaume Méon - 671-689 The size of human capital externalities: cross-country evidence
by Rasmus Thönnessen & Erich Gundlach
October 2013, Volume 157, Issue 1
- 1-2 Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam
by Robert Tollison - 3-24 Campaign contributions as valence
by Timothy Lambie-Hanson - 25-39 Does a membership fee foster successful public good provision? An experimental investigation of the provision of a step-level collective good
by Mohamed Bchir & Marc Willinger - 41-50 On political connectedness and the arrest of Ivan Boesky
by Charles Knoeber & Mark Walker - 51-56 The provision of lighthouses services: a political economy perspective
by Laurent Carnis - 57-71 The political economy of the Reconstruction Era’s race riots
by Art Carden & Christopher Coyne - 73-90 Bandwagon effects in British elections, 1885–1910
by Robert Hodgson & John Maloney - 91-113 White supremacist groups and hate crime
by Sean Mulholland - 115-143 Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
by Tim Krieger & Jens Ruhose - 145-168 Elections with partially ordered preferences
by Michael Ackerman & Sul-Young Choi & Peter Coughlin & Eric Gottlieb & Japheth Wood - 169-181 A political economy model of market intervention
by Francisco Candel-Sánchez & Juan Perote-Peña - 183-205 Tax decentralization and local government size
by Paolo Liberati & Agnese Sacchi - 207-221 Political polarization, congressional redistricting, and trade liberalization
by James DeVault - 223-244 Dispersed communication by central bank committees and the predictability of monetary policy decisions
by Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher - 245-267 Political budget cycles and election outcomes
by Jeroen Klomp & Jakob Haan - 269-286 Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification
by Christian Bjørnskov & Gert Svendsen - 287-304 Policy persistence and rent extraction
by Silke Friedrich - 305-331 Do re-election probabilities influence public investment?
by Jon Fiva & Gisle Natvik - 333-356 Turnout and presidential coattails in congressional elections
by Jean-François Godbout
September 2013, Volume 156, Issue 3
- 387-408 The nationalization of electoral cycles in the United States: a wavelet analysis
by Luís Aguiar-Conraria & Pedro Magalhães & Maria Soares - 409-421 Institutional quality and the tenure of autocrats
by Randall Holcombe & Christopher Boudreaux - 423-441 Do budgetary institutions mitigate the common pool problem? New empirical evidence for the EU
by Jakob Haan & Richard Jong-A-Pin & Jochen Mierau - 443-465 Ideology and the size of US state government
by Andrew Pickering & James Rockey - 467-490 Media proliferation and partisan selective exposure
by Jimmy Chan & Daniel Stone - 491-516 Decentralization as a constraint to Leviathan: a panel cointegration analysis
by John Ashworth & Emma Galli & Fabio Padovano - 517-536 Time to vote?
by John Gibson & Bonggeun Kim & Steven Stillman & Geua Boe-Gibson - 537-561 Electorally unstable by supply or demand?—an examination of the causes of electoral volatility in advanced industrial democracies
by Carina Bischoff - 563-591 Two-round elections, one-round determinants? Evidence from the French municipal elections
by Aurélie Cassette & Etienne Farvaque & Jérôme Héricourt - 593-609 Are bigger governments better providers of public goods? Evidence from air pollution
by Thomas Bernauer & Vally Koubi - 611-629 Public employees lining up at the polls—the conditional effect of living and working in the same municipality
by Yosef Bhatti & Kasper Hansen - 631-651 Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the analysis of political competition?
by Fabio Padovano - 653-676 The politicians’ wage gap: insights from German members of parliament
by Andreas Peichl & Nico Pestel & Sebastian Siegloch - 677-702 Running for office again: evidence from Portuguese municipal elections
by Vítor Castro & Rodrigo Martins - 703-722 Making rules credible: divided government and political budget cycles
by Jorge Streb & Gustavo Torrens - 723-750 The rise and demise of theocracy: theory and some evidence
by Mario Ferrero - 751-752 Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement & the economic emergence of the modern world
by Art Carden - 753-755 Victor Nee, Sonja Opper: Capitalism from below: markets and institutional change in China
by Stephan Gohmann - 757-759 Lawrence H. White: The clash of economic ideas: the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years
by Randall Holcombe
July 2013, Volume 156, Issue 1
- 1-5 James Buchanan: in memoriam
by Geoffrey Brennan - 7-29 A tribute to Earl A. Thompson and, in his own words, a summary of his general economic and social theory
by Don Allison & Thomas Borcherding - 31-43 Efficiency in the provision of pure public goods by private citizens
by C. Lindsay & William Dougan - 45-60 The encomienda and the optimizing imperialist: an interpretation of Spanish imperialism in the Americas
by Ronald Batchelder & Nicolas Sanchez - 61-75 Political institutions and sovereign borrowing: evidence from nineteenth-century Argentina
by Sebastián Saiegh - 77-94 Candidate positioning and responsiveness to constituent opinion in the U.S. House of Representatives
by Michael Peress - 95-103 The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization
by James Kostelnik & David Skarbek - 105-123 The religious transition. A long-run perspective
by Martin Paldam & Erich Gundlach - 125-137 Terrorist success in hostage-taking missions: 1978–2010
by Charlinda Santifort & Todd Sandler - 139-161 ABA ratings: what do they really measure?
by John Lott - 163-180 Biased beliefs and retrospective voting: why democracies choose mediocre policies
by Ivo Bischoff & Lars-H. Siemers - 181-194 Electoral cycles in active labor market policies
by Mario Mechtel & Niklas Potrafke - 195-211 Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries
by Helene Ehrhart - 213-228 It can happen here: the impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe
by Henning Finseraas & Ola Listhaug - 229-252 Inter-regional redistribution through infrastructure investment: tactical or programmatic?
by Albert Solé-Ollé - 253-284 Endogenous institutions and the possibility of reverse crowding out
by R. Isaac & Douglas Norton - 285-307 Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
by Jürgen Huber & Michael Kirchler - 309-327 Public employees and public sector reform implementation
by Hans Bonesrønning - 329-343 Learning by doing in contests
by Derek Clark & Tore Nilssen - 345-356 On the dynamics of legal convergence
by Bertrand Crettez & Bruno Deffains & Olivier Musy - 357-386 Politicians: be killed or survive
by Benno Torgler & Bruno Frey
June 2013, Volume 155, Issue 3
- 189-209 Slavery: a dual-equilibrium model with some historical examples
by Ron Rogowski - 211-228 Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
by Michael Dorsch - 229-250 How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832
by Toke Aidt & Raphaël Franck - 251-271 It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard - 273-292 Gypsy law
by Peter Leeson - 293-316 Progressive taxation and tax morale
by Philipp Doerrenberg & Andreas Peichl - 317-334 Economic voting in Portuguese municipal elections
by Rodrigo Martins & Francisco Veiga - 335-353 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers as pork barrel
by Linda Veiga & Francisco Veiga - 355-371 Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign?
by Pablo Amorós & M. Puy - 373-394 Decision costs in legislative bargaining: an experimental analysis
by Luis Miller & Christoph Vanberg - 395-411 Better that ten guilty persons escape: punishment costs explain the standard of evidence
by Matteo Rizzolli & Margherita Saraceno - 413-432 Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
by Axel Dreher & Martin Gassebner - 433-448 Voters’ commitment problem and reforms in welfare programs
by David Hollanders & Barbara Vis - 449-468 Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics?
by Andrew Young & Russell Sobel - 469-491 Identity and redistribution
by Erik Lindqvist & Robert Östling - 493-505 The political economy of fertility
by Thorsten Janus - 507-529 Academic faculty governance and recruitment decisions
by Jens Prüfer & Uwe Walz - 531-552 The economic value of military connections in Turkey
by Gökçe Göktepe & Shanker Satyanath - 553-555 Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political economy, concisely: essays on policy that does not work and markets that do; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2009. xii + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth) and Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political philosophy, clearly: essays on freedom and fairness, property and equalities; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2010. xi + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth)
by Michael Munger - 557-559 Ron Smith: Military economics: the interaction of power and money
by Adam Pellillo - 561-563 Ruth Grant: Strings attached: untangling the ethics of incentives
by Jason Brennan - 565-567 Joseph Shaanan: Economic freedom and the American dream
by Joshua Hall
April 2013, Volume 155, Issue 1
- 1-18 Tax earmarking, party politics and gubernatorial veto: theory and evidence from US states
by Jeremy Jackson - 19-41 The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization”
by William Pyle & Laura Solanko - 43-60 Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development
by Adalgiso Amendola & Joshy Easaw & Antonio Savoia - 61-79 Power indices in large voting bodies
by Dennis Leech - 81-107 Independent central banks, regime type, and fiscal performance: the case of post-communist countries
by Cristina Bodea - 109-137 Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems: the case of the environment
by Martin Halla & Friedrich Schneider & Alexander Wagner - 139-161 Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner
by James Adams & Samuel Merrill - 163-187 Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006
by Indra Soysa & Krishna Vadlammanati
March 2013, Volume 154, Issue 3
- 163-171 Remembering Vincent Ostrom: unhorsing a dominant paradigm
by David Lowery - 173-195 Trade openness and public expenditure. The Spanish case, 1960–2000
by Estela Sáenz & Marcela Sabaté & M. Gadea - 197-215 The timing of elections in federations: a disciplining device against soft budget constraints?
by Karolina Kaiser & Emmanuelle Taugourdeau - 217-241 Bicameral bargaining and federation formation
by Ross Hickey - 243-258 Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis
by Andrew Abbott & Philip Jones - 259-284 Is there an incumbency advantage or cost of ruling in proportional election systems?
by Che-Yuan Liang - 285-313 The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability
by Eoin McGuirk - 315-321 Islam and democracy: a response
by Marek Hanusch - 323-332 Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: a reply and update
by Niklas Potrafke - 333-335 Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert D. Tollison: Economic origins of Roman Christianity
by Charles North - 337-340 Dennis M.P. McCarthy: An economic history of organized crime: a national and transnational approach
by Nicholas Snow - 341-343 Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East
by Mark Koyama
January 2013, Volume 154, Issue 1
- 1-20 The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources
by Matthias Busse & Steffen Gröning - 21-37 Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system
by Adam Martin & Diana Thomas - 39-58 Charitable giving in the German welfare state: fiscal incentives and crowding out
by Timm Bönke & Nima Massarrat-Mashhadi & Christian Sielaff - 59-73 The politics of digits: evidence of odd taxation
by Asmus Olsen - 75-94 Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units
by Claus Beisbart & Luc Bovens - 95-117 Modeling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter?
by Katharina Schone & Wilfried Koch & Catherine Baumont - 119-137 Committee jurisdiction, congressional behavior and policy outcomes
by John de Figueiredo - 139-148 District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: a comment and reinterpretation
by John Carey & Simon Hix - 149-151 District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences—a reply and new perspectives
by Marco Portmann & David Stadelmann & Reiner Eichenberger - 153-156 Kevin A. Clarke, David M. Primo: A model discipline: political science and the logic of representations
by Paul Dragos Aligica - 157-159 Jason Brennan: The ethics of voting
by Art Carden
December 2012, Volume 153, Issue 3
- 263-268 Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)
by Roberta Herzberg & Barbara Allen - 269-277 On choosing the alternative with the best median evaluation
by Jean-François Laslier - 279-285 Nine points of the law: evidentiary rules and the costs of litigation
by Karl Wärneryd - 287-293 The institutional dimension of election design
by Paul Edelman - 295-327 Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures
by Georgios Efthyvoulou - 329-340 Voting and economic factors in French elections for the European Parliament
by Antoine Auberger - 341-355 Contests—a comparison of timing and information structures
by Sandra Ludwig - 357-373 Why suicide-terrorists get educated, and what to do about it
by Jean-Paul Azam - 375-392 Federal legislative activism in Australia: a new approach to testing Wagner’s law
by Stephen Kirchner - 393-418 Is German domestic social policy politically controversial?
by Niklas Potrafke - 419-445 On the optimal number of representatives
by Emmanuelle Auriol & Robert Gary-Bobo - 447-467 Coalition formation on major policy dimensions: The Council of the European Union 1998 to 2004
by Peter Roozendaal & Madeleine Hosli & Caspar Heetman - 469-485 Adam Smith or Machiavelli? Political incentives for contracting out local public services
by Anders Sundell & Victor Lapuente - 487-494 Tolerance and economic growth revisited: a note
by Eduard Bomhoff & Grace Lee - 495-502 Tolerance and growth: modeling the empirical relationship
by Niclas Berggren & Mikael Elinder - 503-505 Robert I. Rotberg: Transformative political leadership: making a difference in the developing world
by Michael McBride - 507-509 Adrian Vermeule: The system of the constitution
by Jeremy Horpedahl - 511-513 Mark Pennington: Robust political economy: classical liberalism and the future of public policy
by Peter Boettke - 515-517 Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators
by Paul Mahoney - 519-519 Erratum to: Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators
by Paul Mahoney
October 2012, Volume 153, Issue 1
- 1-7 Remembering Bill Niskanen: pursuing economics as a public science in the service of liberty
by Richard Wagner - 9-16 Choosing for others: A neglected element in the theory of collective action
by J. Buchanan & Y. Yoon - 17-36 Travel visas
by Robert Lawson & Jayme Lemke - 37-54 Why fight secession? Evidence of economic motivations from the American Civil War
by Zachary Liscow