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Public Choice
1978 - 2013
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Volume 155, issue 1 , 2013
Tax earmarking, party politics and gubernatorial veto: theory and evidence from US states pp. 1-18
Jeremy J. Jackson
The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization” pp. 19-41
William Pyle and Laura Solanko
Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development pp. 43-60
Adalgiso Amendola , Joshy Easaw and Antonio Savoia
Power indices in large voting bodies pp. 61-79
Dennis Leech
Independent central banks, regime type, and fiscal performance: the case of post-communist countries pp. 81-107
Cristina Bodea
Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems: the case of the environment pp. 109-137
Martin Halla , Friedrich Georg Schneider and Alexander Wagner
Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner pp. 139-161
James Adams and Samuel Merrill
Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006 pp. 163-187
Indra Soysa and Krishna Vadlammanati
Volume 154, issue 3 , 2013
Remembering Vincent Ostrom: unhorsing a dominant paradigm pp. 163-171
David Lowery
Trade openness and public expenditure. The Spanish case, 1960–2000 pp. 173-195
Estela Sáenz , Marcela Sabate and M. Gadea
The timing of elections in federations: a disciplining device against soft budget constraints? pp. 197-215
Karolina Kaiser and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau
Bicameral bargaining and federation formation pp. 217-241
Ross D. Hickey
Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis pp. 243-258
Andrew Abbott and Philip Jones
Is there an incumbency advantage or cost of ruling in proportional election systems? pp. 259-284
Che-Yuan Liang
The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability pp. 285-313
Eoin F. McGuirk
Islam and democracy: a response pp. 315-321
Marek Hanusch
Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: a reply and update pp. 323-332
Niklas Potrafke
Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert D. Tollison: Economic origins of Roman Christianity pp. 333-335
Charles North
Dennis M.P. McCarthy: An economic history of organized crime: a national and transnational approach pp. 337-340
Nicholas Snow
Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East pp. 341-343
Mark Koyama
Volume 154, issue 1 , 2013
The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources pp. 1-20
Matthias Busse and Steffen Gröning
Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system pp. 21-37
Adam Martin and Diana Thomas
Charitable giving in the German welfare state: fiscal incentives and crowding out pp. 39-58
Timm Bönke , Nima Massarrat-Mashhadi and Christian Sielaff
The politics of digits: evidence of odd taxation pp. 59-73
Asmus Olsen
Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units pp. 75-94
Claus Beisbart and Luc Bovens
Modeling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter? pp. 95-117
Katharina Schone , Wilfried Koch and Catherine Baumont
Committee jurisdiction, congressional behavior and policy outcomes pp. 119-137
John de Figueiredo
District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: a comment and reinterpretation pp. 139-148
John Carey and Simon Hix
District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences—a reply and new perspectives pp. 149-151
Marco Portmann , David Stadelmann and Reiner Eichenberger
Kevin A. Clarke, David M. Primo: A model discipline: political science and the logic of representations pp. 153-156
Paul Dragos Aligica
Jason Brennan: The ethics of voting pp. 157-159
Art Carden
Volume 153, issue 3 , 2012
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) pp. 263-268
Roberta Herzberg and Barbara Allen
On choosing the alternative with the best median evaluation pp. 269-277
Jean-François Laslier
Nine points of the law: evidentiary rules and the costs of litigation pp. 279-285
Karl Wärneryd
The institutional dimension of election design pp. 287-293
Paul Edelman
Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures pp. 295-327
Georgios Efthyvoulou
Voting and economic factors in French elections for the European Parliament pp. 329-340
Antoine Auberger
Contests—a comparison of timing and information structures pp. 341-355
Sandra Ludwig
Why suicide-terrorists get educated, and what to do about it pp. 357-373
Jean-Paul Azam
Federal legislative activism in Australia: a new approach to testing Wagner’s law pp. 375-392
Stephen Kirchner
Is German domestic social policy politically controversial? pp. 393-418
Niklas Potrafke
On the optimal number of representatives pp. 419-445
Emmanuelle Auriol and Robert Gary-Bobo
Coalition formation on major policy dimensions: The Council of the European Union 1998 to 2004 pp. 447-467
Peter Roozendaal , Madeleine Hosli and Caspar Heetman
Adam Smith or Machiavelli? Political incentives for contracting out local public services pp. 469-485
Anders Sundell and Victor Lapuente
Tolerance and economic growth revisited: a note pp. 487-494
Eduard Bomhoff and Grace Lee
Tolerance and growth: modeling the empirical relationship pp. 495-502
Niclas Berggren and Mikael Elinder
Robert I. Rotberg: Transformative political leadership: making a difference in the developing world pp. 503-505
Michael McBride
Adrian Vermeule: The system of the constitution pp. 507-509
Jeremy Horpedahl
Mark Pennington: Robust political economy: classical liberalism and the future of public policy pp. 511-513
Peter Boettke
Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators pp. 515-517
Paul Mahoney
Erratum to: Andrei Shleifer: The failure of judges and the rise of regulators pp. 519-519
Paul Mahoney
Volume 153, issue 1 , 2012
Remembering Bill Niskanen: pursuing economics as a public science in the service of liberty pp. 1-7
Richard E. Wagner
Choosing for others: A neglected element in the theory of collective action pp. 9-16
James M. Buchanan and Y. Yoon
Travel visas pp. 17-36
Robert Lawson and Jayme Lemke
Why fight secession? Evidence of economic motivations from the American Civil War pp. 37-54
Zachary Liscow
Revealing information in electoral competition pp. 55-68
Mike Felgenhauer
The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests pp. 69-82
Paul Schweinzer and Ella Segev
Costs of taxation and the size of government pp. 83-115
Jørgen Juel Andersen
Violence, bribery, and fraud: the political economy of elections in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 117-147
Paul Collier and Pedro C. Vicente
The evolution of sharing rules in rent seeking contests: Incentives crowd out cooperation pp. 149-161
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Estimation of party positions: A comment on Schofield and Zakharov (2010) pp. 163-169
Monika Irena Köppl-Turyna
Seniority and anti-competitive restrictions on the legislative common pool: tenure’s impact on the overall production of legislation and the concentration of political benefits pp. 171-190
Russell S. Sobel and Matt Ryan
Regulators and Redskins pp. 191-204
Bentley Coffey , Patrick A. McLaughlin and Robert D. Tollison
Persistent rent extraction pp. 205-213
Leif Helland and Rune Sørensen
Determinants of the assignment of EU funds to Portuguese municipalities pp. 215-233
Linda Gonçalves Veiga
Correcting mistakes: cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States pp. 235-249
Mikael Elinder
Shmuel Nitzan: Collective preference and choice pp. 251-252
Daniel Sutter
Timothy Besley, Torsten Person: Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters pp. 253-255
Claudia R. Williamson
Peter J. Boettke: Living economics: yesterday, today, and tomorrow pp. 257-259
Richard E. Wagner
Erratum to: Environmental cooperation: ratifying second-best agreements pp. 261-261
Pierre Courtois and Guillaume Haeringer