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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Culture, institutions and democratization*	51
Public choice and public health	27
Globalization and populism in Europe	25
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms	20
The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism	16
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias	15
Political economy of financial crisis duration	14
New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities	13
The rise of populist parties in the aftermath of a massive corruption scandal	13
The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion: a public choice perspective	12
Public expenditures and the risk of social dominance	11
Legal corruption?	10
Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755	10
Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?	10
Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers	10
Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship?	10
Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world	10
The economic theory of regulation and inequality	10
Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910	9
Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017	8
Optimal lockdowns	8
Buchanan at the American Founding: the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals	8
Voting for the underdog or jumping on the bandwagon? Evidence from India’s exit poll ban	8
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life	8
János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism	7

James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion”	7
Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates	7
The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Janos Kornai: a non-mainstream pathway from economic planning to disequilibrium economics	7
Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France	7
Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival	7
“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years	7
The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis	7
What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem	7
Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai	7
Marx after Kornai	7
Public health and expert failure	7
Can a contractarian be a paternalist? The logic of James M. Buchanan’s system	7
Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots: coalitions in Arkansas’ alcohol-legalization elections	7
Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits	7
How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile	7
The instability of globalization: applying evolutionary game theory to global trade cooperation	6
Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism	6
Do women always behave as corruption cleaners?	6
From subjectivism to constitutionalism: the intellectual journey of James M. Buchanan through his Italian heroes	6
Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives	6
Rally ’round which flag? Terrorism’s effect on (intra)national identity	6
The gender wage gap: an analysis of US congressional staff members	6
Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country	6
Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures	6
1956 in Hungary: as I saw it then and as I see it now	6
Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests	5
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	5
Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism?	5
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism	5
Risk aversion in two-period rent-seeking games	5
Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom	5
The broken bridge of public finance: majority rule, earmarked taxes and social engineering	5
James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future	5
The value of political connections in the post-transition period: evidence from Czechia	5
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	5
In the land of OZ: designating opportunity zones	5
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school	5
Government externalities	5
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy	5
Droughts and corruption	5
On the nature and structure of externalities	5
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	5
Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters	5
Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level	5
Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue	4
Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia	4
Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties	4
Decomposing political advertising effects on vote choices	4
Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization	4

Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?	4
Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia	4
The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe	4
Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by	4
Marketing Communist Party membership in China	4
Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime	4
Novel externalities	4
Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions	4
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	4
Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx	3
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory	3
Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research	3
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	3
Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns?	3
Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence	3
Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox	3
Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift	3
Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business?	3
Veto players, market discipline, and structural fiscal consolidations	3
Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era	3
Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil	3
Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending	3
The subjectivist-contrarian position	3
Individualism and racial tolerance	3
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics	3
Ethics and good governance	3
Rediscovering Buchanan’s rediscovery: non-market exchange versus antiseptic allocation	3
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang	3
Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science	3
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	3
How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences	3