Public Choice

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Volume 136, issue 1, 2008

Mr. Smith and the economy: the influence of economic conditions on individual legislator voting pp. 1-17

Edward López and Carlos Ramírez

Paying the partners pp. 19-37

T. Tideman and Florenz Plassmann

How to make a dis-entrepreneur of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur: the impact of institutional settings on growth pp. 39-54

Giuseppe Eusepi and Edgar Wilson

Biased contests pp. 55-67

Matthias Dahm and Nicolás Porteiro

A simple way of estimating interest group ideology pp. 69-86

Amy McKay

Does restricting choice in referenda enable governments to spend more? pp. 87-101

Randall Holcombe and Lawrence W. Kenny

Can tax evasion tame Leviathan governments? pp. 103-122

Frode Brevik and Manfred Gärtner

Do fiscal rules cause budgetary outcomes? pp. 123-138

Signe Krogstrup and Sébastien Wälti

Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis pp. 139-164

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

Bargaining in the appointment process, constrained delegation and the political weight of the Senate pp. 165-180

Aggey Semenov

Auctions or grandfathering: the political economy of tradable emission permits pp. 181-200

Yu-Bong Lai

A distributive N-amendment game with endogenous agenda formation pp. 201-213

Elizabeth Penn

Selling favors in the lab: experiments on campaign finance reform pp. 215-239

Daniel Houser and Thomas Stratmann

Adrian Vermeule. Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small pp. 241-244

Christopher Coyne

Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, & Thomas E. Flanagan, eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans pp. 245-247

Edward Stringham

Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin (eds.): Democracy, Freedom, and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach pp. 249-251

Benjamin Powell

John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia, Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey’s Most Influential Writings pp. 253-254

Arthur Denzau and Ravi Roy

Volume 135, issue 1, 2008

Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to spontaneous order studies pp. 1-2

Peter Boettke

Maximizing behavior & market forces: the microfoundations of spontaneous order theorizing in Gordon Tullock’s contributions to Smithian political economy pp. 3-10

Peter Boettke

The Politics of Bureaucracy and the failure of post-war reconstruction pp. 11-22

Christopher Coyne

Gordon Tullock’s The Organization of Inquiry: A critical appraisal pp. 23-34

Bruce Caldwell

Spontaneous order and the common law: Gordon Tullock’s critique pp. 35-53

Todd Zywicki

Finding social dilemma: West of Babel, not east of Eden pp. 55-66

Richard Wagner

Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order pp. 67-78

Peter T. Leeson

Thinking about order without thought: the lifetime contributions of Gordon Tullock pp. 79-88

Michael Munger

Volume 134, issue 3, 2008

Rational benevolence in small committees pp. 139-146

Derek Clark and Christian Riis

What makes fiscal consolidations last? A survival analysis of budget cuts in Europe (1960–2004) pp. 147-161

Reyes Illera and Carlos Mulas-Granados

Public pensions and return migration pp. 163-178

Tim Krieger

Extension of the portfolio allocation model to surplus majority governments: a fuzzy approach pp. 179-199

Terry Clark, Jennifer Larson, John Mordeson and Mark Wierman

The political legislation cycle pp. 201-229

Francesco Lagona and Fabio Padovano

A power measure analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado pp. 231-246

Claus Beisbart and Luc Bovens

Voting to anger and to please others pp. 247-254

Amihai Glazer

The optimal jury size when jury deliberation follows a random walk pp. 255-262

Eric Helland and Yaron Raviv

The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data pp. 263-292

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Heinrich W. Ursprung

The extent of the population paradox in the Hungarian electoral system pp. 293-305

Attila Tasnádi

Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence pp. 307-328

Christian Bjornskov and Nicolai Foss

Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states pp. 329-346

Nathan Ashby and Russell Sobel

Provoking a civil war pp. 347-366

Lorenzo Rocco and Zié Ballo

An economic or political Kuznets curve? pp. 367-389

Henry Tam

Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960) pp. 391-417

Toke Aidt and Bianca Dallal

Optimal taxation and economic growth: a comment pp. 419-427

Roderick Hill

Performance and prize decomposition in contests pp. 429-443

Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai Schwarz

The choice of insurance in the labor market pp. 445-462

Michael Neugart

Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries pp. 463-488

George Economides, Sarantis Kalyvitis and Apostolis Philippopoulos

A rejoinder to “A commentary on ‘Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?’ ” pp. 489-490

Burton Abrams

Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State and Public Choice pp. 491-493

Daniel Sutter

New publications pp. 495-500

Michael Munger

Henry H. Bauer. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory pp. 501-504

William F. Shughart

Volume 134, issue 1, 2008

Introduction: Blogs, politics and power: a special issue of Public Choice pp. 1-13

Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell

The power and politics of blogs pp. 15-30

Henry Farrell and Daniel Drezner

Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China pp. 31-46

Rebecca MacKinnon

Meet the bridgebloggers pp. 47-65

Ethan Zuckerman

Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers pp. 67-86

Eszter Hargittai, Jason Gallo and Matthew Kane

Neither Hayek nor Habermas pp. 87-95

Cass Sunstein

What do bloggers do: an average day on an average political blog pp. 97-108

Laura McKenna and Antoinette Pole

New competencies in democratic communication? Blogs, agenda setting and political participation pp. 109-123

Deva Woodly

Blogging and political information: truth or truthiness? pp. 125-138

Michael Munger