OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Choice is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries	186
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	42
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	24
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	22
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	18
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	18
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	17
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	16
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	14
A reservation economic freedom index	13
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	13
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections	13
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	13
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	12
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	11
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	11
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	10
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	10
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	10
Editorial announcement	10
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	10
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	10
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	9
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	9
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	9

Two cheers for humanomics	9
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	9
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	9
Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	8
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	7
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	7
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	7
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	7
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	7
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	7
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	7
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	6
Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence	6
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	6
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	6
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	6
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	6
Meritocracy and its discontents	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
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
Editorial announcement	6
Putting economics back in Humanomics	6
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	6
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	6
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	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
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	5
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games	5
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	5
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	5
Measuring constitutional loyalty	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	5
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	5
The political economy of paternalism	5
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	5
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	5
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	5
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	5
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	5
Individualism and racial tolerance	4
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	4
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	4
The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	4
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	4

Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	4
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	4
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	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
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	4
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	4
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	4
The implementability of liberalism	4
Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944	4
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	4
Political competition and Chinese official data	4
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	4
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	4
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	4
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	4
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)	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	3
Home alone	3
How terrorism affects support for democracy	3
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade	3
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution	3
Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy	3
The political economy of public health	3
On the nature and structure of externalities	3
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	3
Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule	3
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	3
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	3
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	3
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	3
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	3
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	3
Costs of choice: reformulating price theory without heroic assumptions	3
Increasing support for economic freedom: responses in a representative sample of US adults	3
Correction to: The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same‑sex marriage	3
Political economy of financial crisis duration	3
On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice	3
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	3
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)	3
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	3
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	3
Political central bank coverage	3
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution	3
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	3
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions	3
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox	3
Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data	3
Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine	3
Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons	3
A game theory approach to football predictions	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	3