Public Choice

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Choice is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries94
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art29
Do racist attitudes and behaviors impede economic growth? Cross-national and regional evidence20
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities20
Samuel Gregg, The next American Economy: Nation, State, and markets in an Uncertain World. New York, NY: Encounter Books, 2022. Xvi + 335 pages. USD 22.49 (hardcover)19
Scott scheall, F.A. Hayek and the epistemology of politics: the curious task of economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 200 Pages. USD 160.00 (hardback)13
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale13
Hong Liu, The political economy of transnational governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 220 Pages. USD 142.85 (Hardcover)13
Peter J. Boettke and Solomon M. Stein (eds.), Buchanan’s tensions: reexamining the political economy and philosophy of James M. Buchanan, Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 20112
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)11
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe10
Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians10
Enumerating rights: more is not always better10
You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals10
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?9
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life9
Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act9
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence9
Two (lay) dogmas on externalities8
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?8
The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest8
Behavioral symmetry with humanomics: public choice and moral community8
Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos8
Axiomatization of plurality refinements8
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue7
Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary7
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports7
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation7
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival7
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy7
The implementability of liberalism7
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?6
Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors6
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections6
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions6
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–20176
The political business cycle of tax reforms5
A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state5
The spontaneous provision of criminal law5
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?5
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization5
Vote buying and redistribution5
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers5
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis5
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime4
Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe4
Usury enforcement as an alternative to capital taxation in pre-modern states4
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics4
Soft-power and pro-European bias in the UNESCO World Heritage List? A test based on ICOMOS experts’ evaluations of colonial sites4
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications4
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison4
You have nothing to lose but your chains?4
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile4
A reservation economic freedom index4
Correction to: Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism4
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)3
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap3
Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic3
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions3
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries3
Environmental regulation, regulatory spillovers and rent-seeking3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution3
Correction to: Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices3
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and the economics of culture3
Immigrants as future voters3
Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled3
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?3
Editorial announcement3
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism3
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers3
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?3
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective3
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions2
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?2
Party leaders as welfare-maximizing coalition builders in the pursuit of party-related public goods2
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament2
Regulatory capture in a resource boom2
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests2
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity2
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue2
Attentiveness in elections with impressionable voters2
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level2
Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings2
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America2
Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing?2
Identifying the regulator’s objective: Does political support matter?2
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents2
Congressional apportionment and the fourteenth amendment2
Fiscal illusion at the individual level2
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP2
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size2
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes2
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters2
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism2
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school2
The political economy of rights2
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England2
The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue2
Geoffrey Brennan: scholar and gentleman2
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach2
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by2
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China2
Persuasion and gender: experimental evidence from two political campaigns2
The political economy of climate action in Indian Country2
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem2
Rebel victory and constitutional change2
Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance2
Institutionally constrained drone adoption2
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets2
Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 314 Pages. USD 32.92
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy1
Collaboration as communication: writing with Geoffrey Brennan1
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India1
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons1
Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger Meiners (eds), The Legacy of Bruce Yandle. Arlington, VA: Mercatus center, 2020. xviii + 270 pages. USD 19.95 (paperback)1
Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray1
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel1
Bart J. Wilson, The property species: mine, yours, and the human mind. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxvii + 230 Pages. USD 35.00 (Paperback)1
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)1
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments1
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment1
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)1
Protection for sale: evidence from around the world1
Federal reserve appointments and the politics of senate confirmation1
Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households1
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China1
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery1
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)1
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics1
Voting like a human1
Humanomics: introduction to a special issue1
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy1
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states1
Party-related primacy effects in proportional representation systems: evidence from a natural experiment in Polish local elections1
Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates1
Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. Pandemic politics: the deadly toll of partisanship in the age of COVID. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xii + 4001
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era1
Heinrich Ursprung: a scholarly life1
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework1
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence1
The impacts of political uncertainty on public financing costs: evidence from anti-corruption investigations in China1
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice1
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang1
Bob Ekelund’s approach to economics1
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement1
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice1
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China1
Starving and deceiving: Are politicians with childhood famine exposure more honest?1
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined1
The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School1
Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods?1
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School1
When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada1
Partially verifiable deliberation in voting1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note1
Conflict under the shadow of elections1
Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism1
Political central bank coverage1
Bob Ekelund – a recollection1
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?1
Is country leaders’ education relevant for policy making? The case of the Covid-19 pandemic1
Bryn Rosenfeld: The autocratic middle class: how state dependency reduces the demand for democracy1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children1
Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Raufhon Salahodjaev, Toward a political economy of the commons: simple rules for sustainability1
The economic theory of regulation and inequality1
Ilya Somin, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 Pages. USD 29.95 (hardback)1
Serving two masters: the effect of state religion on fiscal capacity1
Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm: Big data and the welfare state: how the information revolution threatens social solidarity1
Constitutional renewals: the lineage of democratizing constitutions1
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum1
George stigler’s theory of economic regulation at 50 - introduction to a special issue1
In Janos Kornai’s memory1
Regional favoritism in access to credit1
Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-191
Revolutions and corruption1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?1
William R. Keech: in Memoriam1
Two cheers for humanomics1
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars1
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions1
The power of empirical evidence: assessing changes in public opinion on constitutional emergency provisions1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints1
The Samaritan bureaucracy in international transfers1
Mayoral partisanship and municipal fiscal health1
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research1
George J. Stigler’s theory of economic regulation, bootleggers, baptists and the rebirth of the public interest imperative1
Home alone1
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation1
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions1
Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment1
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