OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Choice is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Remembering Bob Ekelund: his impact on us, and on the economics of art	232
Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue	45
Axiomatization of plurality refinements	27
Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts	23
A unified approach to measuring unequal representation	22
Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)	21
A reservation economic freedom index	18
The quality of state governance as a source of international differences in total factor productivity	16
Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics	16
Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people	15
Optimal assisted return policies are dynamically inconsistent	14
Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy	14
Duverger’s tilted balance: “Two-party system” operationalized	14
Were COVID-19 lockdowns worth it? A meta-analysis	13
The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions	13
Ruled by robots: preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices	12
Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems	12
Institutionally constrained drone adoption	12
Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets?	12
Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective	11
The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China	11
Regulatory capture in a resource boom	11
Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity	11
Two cheers for humanomics	11
Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement	10

Do civilian complaints against police get punished?	10
Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment	10
Adam Lovett: Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy	10
The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice	10
Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback)	9
Putting economics back in Humanomics	9
Does the US individual income tax display systemic racism? Negative evidence from audited US federal tax return data for 1967–73	9
The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary	9
Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note	9
Pandemic preparation without romance: insights from public choice	9
Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result	9
Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion	8
Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations	8
Meritocracy and its discontents	8
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)	8
Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue	7
Cash versus digital payments in the public and private sectors: effects on petty versus grand corruption	7
Appealing, threatening or nudging? Assessing various communication strategies to promote tax compliance	7
The political economy of paternalism	7
Expert knowledge and the administrative state	7
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.: a tribute to the scholar and the man	7
Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government	7
Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes	7
Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State	7
Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?	7
Prediction paradoxes and litigation incentives	7
Editorial announcement	7
Dead money: measuring the influence of representatives on post-passage appropriations	7
Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country	6
Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade	6
Measuring constitutional loyalty	6
Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920	6
German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala	6
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy	6
When Goliath sells to David: explaining price gouging perceptions through power	6
The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: a conflict economics perspective on the Peloponnesian war	6
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	6
When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence	6
The Brexit referendum and three types of regret	6
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment	6
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes	6
Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments	6
Affirmative action in large population tullock contests	6
Jurisdiction size and perceived corruption	6
Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts	6
‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers	5
Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports	5
Individualism and racial tolerance	5
Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?	5
The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions	5

The economics of everything: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.’s contributions to the study of extra-market activities	5
Political competition and Chinese official data	5
The implementability of liberalism	5
Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?	5
Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism	5
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)	5
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)	5
Till We Have Red Faces: Drinking to Signal Trustworthiness in Contemporary China	5
Nothing comes for free: the impact of place-based tax incentives on firms’ costs	5
The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents	5
Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications	5
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size	4
How terrorism affects support for democracy	4
Home alone	4
When electoral reforms backfire: reassessing reelection’s impact on corruption	4
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars	4
The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China	4
Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy	4
Political central bank coverage	4
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries	4
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar	4
Soft budget constraints and technological innovations: evidence from China	4
The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined	4
An evolutionary model of rent-seeking and inequality norms in a Tullock contest	4
Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework	4
Democratization and knowledge in social sciences	4
Can fiscal transparency mitigate political budget cycles?	4
Inequality and terrorism: a meta-regression analysis	4
Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix + 306 pages. USD 59.99 (hardback)	4
The humanomics underpinning free market productivity: synthesizing insights from social philosophy, systems thinking, and neuroeconomics	4
Do constitutional unamendability rules make a difference?	4
Do US presidents leave fiscal fingerprints? the power of the executive branch through a century of tax data	4