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January 2010, Volume 142, Issue 1
- 9-23 Not it: opting out of voluntary coalitions that provide a public good
by David McEvoy - 25-39 Social mobility and the demand for public consumption expenditures
by Michael Dorsch - 41-57 Distribution of surplus in sequential bargaining with endogenous recognition
by Huseyin Yildirim - 59-67 Trust and growth
by Oguzhan Dincer & Eric Uslaner - 69-90 Determinants of the probability and timing of commercial casino legalization in the United States
by Peter Calcagno & Douglas Walker & John Jackson - 91-110 Political and institutional environment and privatization prices
by Alberto Chong & Jorge Guillen & Alejandro Riano - 111-124 The policy impact of unified government: evidence from 2000 to 2002
by Nathan Monroe - 125-150 Fighting with one hand tied behind the back: political budget cycles in the West German states
by Christina Schneider - 151-175 Strategic political commentary
by Todd Kendall - 177-194 A stochastic model of the 2007 Russian Duma election
by Norman Schofield & Alexei Zakharov - 195-213 Government size and growth: Accounting for economic freedom and globalization
by Andreas Bergh & Martin Karlsson - 215-235 Transparency and political moral hazard
by M. Dogan - 237-253 Terrorist networks, support, and delegation
by Kevin Siqueira & Todd Sandler - 255-256 Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, Kai A. Konrad (eds.): 40 years of research on rent seeking 1 and 2
by Randall Holcombe - 257-259 Daniel Treisman: The architecture of government: rethinking political decentralization
by Pierre Salmon
December 2009, Volume 141, Issue 3
- 273-275 The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif
by Avner Greif - 277-290 Endogenous choice of amendment agendas: types of voters and experimental evidence
by Oleg Smirnov - 291-303 The political economy of smoking regulation and taxation
by Aloys Prinz - 305-317 Clientelism and polarized voting: empirical evidence
by Klarita Gërxhani & Arthur Schram - 319-333 Earning through learning in legislatures
by Glenn Parker & Suzanne Parker - 335-349 Productivity growth and funding of public service broadcasting
by Paul Fenn & David Paton & Leighton Vaughan Williams - 351-369 Buying supermajorities in a stochastic environment
by Patrick Hummel - 371-389 Hostile takeover and costly merger control
by Oliver Gürtler & Matthias Kräkel - 391-403 Institutionalizing uncertainty: the choice of electoral formulas
by Gonzalo Córdoba & Alberto Penadés - 405-419 Colonial experience and postcolonial underdevelopment in Africa
by Nobuhiro Mizuno & Ryosuke Okazawa - 421-445 Outsourcing in US cities, ambulances and elderly voters
by Matthew Holian - 447-465 Governmental behavior in representative democracy: a synthesis of the theoretical literature
by Benoît Le Maux - 467-480 War and peace—cyclical phenomena?
by Adam Jacobsson - 481-491 Governance as a strategy in state-of-nature games
by Jason Briggeman - 493-508 Reporting for sale: the market for news coverage
by John Gasper - 509-522 Where have all the heroes gone? A rational-choice perspective on heroism
by S. Blomberg & Gregory Hess & Yaron Raviv - 523-525 Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
by Peter Leeson - 527-529 James T. Bennett. Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties
by Claudia Williamson
October 2009, Volume 141, Issue 1
- 1-4 Hobbes and the prophet Samuel on leviathan government
by Arye Hillman - 5-12 Hobbes’s Samuel
by Geoffrey Brennan - 13-15 Hobbes and Samuel: reply
by Arye Hillman - 17-29 A behavioral power index
by Serguei Kaniovski & Dennis Leech - 31-48 Bargaining in the shadow of the ballot box: causes and consequences of local voter initiatives
by Tracy Gordon - 49-63 Tullock’s contest with reimbursements
by Alexander Matros & Daniel Armanios - 65-85 Vertical transfers and the appropriation of resources by the bureaucracy: the case of Brazilian state governments
by Nelson Marconi & Paulo Arvate & João Moura Neto & Paulo Palombo - 87-101 Trading policy: Constituents and party in U.S. trade policy
by Nicholas Weller - 103-127 Does economic freedom cause prosperity? An IV approach
by Hugo Faria & Hugo Montesinos - 129-150 Political pressure deflection
by James Anderson & Maurizio Zanardi - 151-165 Bread and the attrition of power: Economic events and German election results
by Irem Batool & Gernot Sieg - 167-188 Intergenerational transfers of public sector jobs: a shred of evidence on nepotism
by Vincenzo Scoppa - 189-212 Governance choice on a serial network
by Feng Xie & David Levinson - 213-232 Projection effects and strategic ambiguity in electoral competition
by Thomas Jensen - 233-267 IMF conditionality: theory and evidence
by Axel Dreher - 269-271 Steven J. Brams: Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures
by Nicolaus Tideman
September 2009, Volume 140, Issue 3
- 275-285 The curious citation practices of Avner Greif: Janet Landa comes to grief
by C. Rowley - 287-317 On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009
by Roger Congleton - 319-327 Financial and world economic crisis: What did economists contribute?
by Friedrich Schneider & Gebhard Kirchgässner - 329-340 Deregulation despite transitional gains
by Diana W. Thomas - 341-356 Evolutionarily stable preferences in contests
by Wolfgang Leininger - 357-377 How prices matter in politics: the returns to campaign advertising
by Thomas Stratmann - 379-394 Politicians’ outside earnings and electoral competition
by Johannes Becker & Andreas Peichl & Johannes Rincke - 395-420 Modeling the influence of polls on elections: a population dynamics approach
by Juan Restrepo & Rosalyn Rael & James Hyman - 421-429 A principal-agent approach to a self-administered organization with an elected principal
by Robert Dehm & Berthold Wigger - 431-461 The economic effects of direct democracy—a first global assessment
by Lorenz Blume & Jens Müller & Stefan Voigt - 463-478 Political economy of crime and punishment under Stalin
by Eugenia Belova & Paul Gregory - 479-500 Free-riding on rent seeking—an empirical analysis
by Hartley Furtom & Johannes Sauer & Maria Jensen - 501-501 Free-riding on rent seeking—an empirical analysis
by Hartley Furtan & Johannes Sauer & Maria Jensen - 503-538 Public choice and the economic analysis of anarchy: a survey
by Benjamin Powell & Edward Stringham - 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