Public Choice

1990 - 2008

Edited by Charles K. Rowley, WIlliam F. Shughart and Robert D. Tollison

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Volume 124, issue 3, 2005

Non-binding linked-issues referenda: Analysis and an application pp. 249-266

Timo Goeschl

“Public goods”: An exercise in calibration pp. 267-282

John Hudson and Philip Jones

Health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related? pp. 283-308

Mathias Kifmann

Symmetric two-stage contests with budget constraints pp. 309-328

William Stein and Amnon Rapoport

Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation pp. 329-352

Martin Bodenstein and Heinrich W. Ursprung

The tragedy of the political commons: Evidence from U.S. Senate roll call votes on environmental legislation pp. 353-364

Anwar Hussain and David Laband

Valence characteristics, costly policy and the median-crossing property: A diagrammatic exposition pp. 365-382

Donald Wittman

The dual illusion of grants-in-aid on central and local expenditures: A reply pp. 383-390

Robert Logan and Yeung-Nan Shieh

The credibility of monetary reform – New evidence pp. 391-409

Andreas Freytag

Rents, dissipation and lost treasures: Rethinking Tullock's paradox pp. 411-422

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Francesco Parisi

Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy pp. 423-436

Anthony Giles Heyes and Catherine Liston-Heyes

Self-deception as the root of political failure pp. 437-451

Tyler Cowen

Macroeconomic conditions and committee re-election rates pp. 453-480

Joseph McGarrity

James T. Bennett, Tax-Funded Politics. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 204 pages. USD 29.95 (cloth) pp. 481-484

William F. Shughart

Pascal Boyer,Explaining religion: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. New York: Basic Books, 2001 pp. 485-487

Kenneth Greene

Volume 124, issue 1, 2005

Public choice in the new century pp. 1-18

William F. Shughart and Robert Tollison

Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum pp. 19-31

James M. Buchanan

Fragmenting parchment and the winds of war: The Constitution of the United States, 1860–2004 pp. 33-56

Charles Rowley

Constitutional political economy in the European Union pp. 57-73

Dennis Mueller

Collective versus unilateral responses to terrorism pp. 75-93

Todd Sandler

Government growth in the twenty-first century pp. 95-114

Randall G. Holcombe

Nineteenth-century voting procedures in a twenty-first century world pp. 115-133

Michael Munger

Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature pp. 135-156

Thomas Stratmann

The eclipse of legislatures: Direct democracy in the 21st century pp. 157-177

John G. Matsusaka

Corporations, collective action and corporate governance: One size does not fit all pp. 179-204

J. Mulherin

The public choice of educational choice pp. 205-222

Lawrence W. Kenny

Public choice and tort reform pp. 223-236

Paul H. Rubin

The unfinished business of public choice pp. 237-247

William F. Shughart and Robert Tollison

Volume 123, issue 3, 2005

Democracy as an equilibrium pp. 253-273

Adam Przeworski

What does the European Union do? pp. 275-319

Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni and Ludger Schuknecht

Public sector efficiency: An international comparison pp. 321-347

Antonio Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht and Vito Tanzi

The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000 pp. 349-361

John Lott

Why chads? Determinants of voting equipment use in the United States pp. 363-392

Phillip Garner and Enrico Spolaore

From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else pp. 393-410

Daowei Zhang and David Laband

Soft money and hard choices: Why political parties might legislate against soft money donations pp. 411-438

David Gill and Christine Lipsmeyer

Evidence on the importance of spatial voting models in presidential nominations and elections pp. 439-462

Lawrence W. Kenny and Babak Lotfinia

The robustness of Kingma’s crowd-out estimate: Evidence from new data on contributions to public radio pp. 463-476

Sonia Manzoor and John Straub

Pivotal power brokers: Theory and evidence on political fundraising pp. 477-493

Franklin Mixon, Chena Crocker and H. Black

Volume 123, issue 1, 2005

Thinking About the Political Impacts of the Electoral College pp. 1-18

Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld

In Play: A Commentary on Strategies in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election pp. 19-37

Jennifer Merolla, Michael Munger and Michael Tofias

The Effect of Voting Technology on Voter Turnout: Do Computers Scare the Elderly? pp. 39-47

Gary Roseman and E. Frank Stephenson

Problems of Voting pp. 49-58

Gordon Tullock

Production and Conflict Models Versus Rent-Seeking Models pp. 59-93

Kjell Hausken

The Political Determinants of Federal Expenditure at the State Level pp. 95-113

Gary Hoover and Paul Pecorino

Working Well with Others: The Evolution of Teamwork and Ethics pp. 115-131

Daniel Arce M. and L. Gunn

Does Political Ideology Affect Economic Growth? pp. 133-146

Christian Bjornskov

Voters AS A Hard Budget Constraint: On the Determination of Intergovernmental Grants pp. 147-169

Lars P. Feld and Christoph Schaltegger

Social Capital and Endogenous Preferences pp. 171-196

Anders Poulsen and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

The Citizen Candidate Model: An Experimental Analysis pp. 197-216

John Cadigan

The Impact of Divided Government on Legislative Production pp. 217-233

James Rogers

Samuel Kernell (Ed.), James Madison: The theory and practice of Republican government. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. ix + 381 pages. USD 65.00 (cloth) pp. 235-241

Alan Lockard

Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. No. 15 in the American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, Steven E. Woodworth (Ed.), Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004. xxix + 124 pages. USD 65.00 (cloth); 19.95 (paper) pp. 243-248

William F. Shughart

W. Mark Crain, Volatile states: Institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. xiv +166 pages. USD 49.50/GBP 31.00 (cloth) pp. 249-251

David Schap