Public Choice

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	149
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	38
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	34
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	25
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	21
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	19
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	15
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	15
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
A reservation economic freedom index	14
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions	12
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	12
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	12
Editorial announcement	12
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	10
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	10
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	9
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	9
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	9
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	8
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	8
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	8

Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	7
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	7
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation	7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	7
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	7
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	7
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	7
Two cheers for humanomics	6
Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel	6
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	6
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	6
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	6
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: a new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback)	6
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	6
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	6
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	6
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	6
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	6
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Editorial announcement	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	5
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	5
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Hanan Amin-Salem, Amira El-Shal, and Eman Moustafa, The political economy of crisis management and reform in Egypt. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Xiii + 167 pages. EUR 39.9	5
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	5
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	5
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	5
The political economy of paternalism	5
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	4
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	4
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	4
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	4
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
Political competition and Chinese official data	4

Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	4
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)	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	3
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	3
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	3
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	3
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	3
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	3
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
Political central bank coverage	3
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	3
Immigrants as future voters	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	3
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
Home alone	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	3
The implementability of liberalism	3
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	3
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)	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	2
Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers	2
The political economy of public health	2
Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies?	2
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	2
Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system	2
Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival	2
Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests	2
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	2
Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design	2
Does discrimination in lending still persist?	2
Bryn Rosenfeld: The autocratic middle class: how state dependency reduces the demand for democracy	2
Rational gridlock	2
George A. Selgin, False dawn: the New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933–1947. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xiv + 370 pages. USD 35.00 (hardback)	2
The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform	2
Bob Ekelund – a recollection	2
Borda count in a forward agenda	2
What factors drive cross-country economic freedom convergence?	2
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	2
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	2
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	2
Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition	2
On the nature and structure of externalities	2
Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime	2
Political economy of financial crisis duration	2
Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap	2
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	2
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	2
Public employment and homeownership dynamics	2
The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health	2
Income and the (eventual) rise of democracy	2
Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?	2
Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa	2
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery	2
Editorial announcement	2
Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum	2
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	2
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates	2
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	2
The legacy of the past: pre-reform party competition and contamination of single-member districts in mixed electoral systems	2
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	2
The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil	2
A game theory approach to football predictions	2
Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP	2
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	2

The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain	2
Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile	2
Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018	2
Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism	2
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	2
Correction to: What factors drive cross‑country economic freedom convergence?	2
Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states	2
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	2
Behavioral responses of mandatory masking within social interactions	2
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, 201	2
Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	2
Sebastián Edwards, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 343 pages. USD $27.49 (hardback)	2
Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes	2
Regulation, competition, and the social control of business	1
Bob Ekelund’s approach to economics	1
Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design?	1
Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover)	1
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession	1
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England	1
In memory of Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: career, scholarship, and retrospect	1
Heinrich Ursprung: a scholarly life	1
Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover)	1
Partially verifiable deliberation in voting	1
The mixed local-proportional electoral system: balancing political interests and common good	1
Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue	1
Conflict under the shadow of elections	1
The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity	1
Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19	1
Loose language or stylized facts? d’Avray on Ekelund and Tollison	1
On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children	1
You have nothing to lose but your chains?	1
Housing values and jurisdictional fragmentation	1
Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India	1
Fiscal performance and the re-election of finance ministers–evidence from the Swiss cantons	1
Road maintenance over the local election cycle	1
Coups and constitutional change	1
Wealth inequality and democracy	1
Is country leaders’ education relevant for policy making? The case of the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy	1
Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue	1
Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda	1
From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets	1
How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices?	1
In Janos Kornai’s memory	1
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	1
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	1
John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	1
Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus	1
International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints	1
Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens	1
Voting like a human	1
Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe	1
The power of empirical evidence: assessing changes in public opinion on constitutional emergency provisions	1
Complex externalities: introduction to the special issue	1
Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities	1
Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception	1
The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland	1
Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework	1
Bob Ekelund: a modern renaissance man	1
From Adam Smith to artificial intelligence: an experimental exploration of emotion in humanomics	1
Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament	1
Incentives for non-participation: absence in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–2015	1
Enhancing voluntary contributions in a public goods economy via a minimum individual contribution level	1
Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover)	1
Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America	1
Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials	1
Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism)	1
Optimal lockdowns	1
Tullock contest alliances with proportional prize-sharing agreements: private collective action mechanisms?	1
The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial?	1
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: Memento Mori	1
Government externalities	1
Testing Piketty’s hypothesis on the drivers of income inequality: evidence from panel VARs with heterogeneous dynamics	1
Trust, regulation, and market efficiency	1
Of Principals, Agents, and Transaction Costs: A Response to d’Avray	1
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect	1
Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Raufhon Salahodjaev, Toward a political economy of the commons: simple rules for sustainability	1
Rationally revealing religion: in defense of Ekelund and Tollison on method	1
Are there normative social epistemologies? Vernon Smith, Adam Smith, and the challenge of systems	1
The spontaneous provision of criminal law	1
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 + 400	1