Public Choice

1966 - 2026

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Volume 206, issue 3, 2026

Putting economics back in Humanomics pp. 309-326

Bryan P. Cutsinger and Alexander William Salter

Can experimental methods put Smithian sympathy to the test? pp. 327-332

Tony Hernandez and Daniel J. D’Amico

Preventing gerrymandering: a moving-knife algorithm to draw congressional districts pp. 333-361

Steven J. Brams, Alex Bai and Yagnesh Patel

Aid for incumbents: the electoral consequences of COVID-19 relief pp. 363-390

Jeffrey Clemens, Julia Payson and Stan Veuger

Juries in flux pp. 391-424

Francesco Parisi and Ram Singh

Policy changes and growth slowdown: assessing Chile’s lost decade pp. 425-454

Emiliano Toni, Pablo Paniagua and Patricio Órdenes

Run, graduate, run: Internationally mobile students’ reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe pp. 455-487

Reinhard A. Weisser

Do voters use information on candidates? Experimental evidence from a recent election pp. 489-519

Emma Galli, Giampaolo Garzarelli, Gabriele Pinto and Massimo Pulejo

The power of the banking lobby and its consequences: a scoping review pp. 521-564

Eric Heyden

Police homicides and riots in France pp. 565-592

Simon Varaine, Raul Magni-Berton, Sebastian Roché and Paul Le Derff

Too hot to play it cool? Temperature and negative media bias pp. 593-608

David Stadelmann, Tobias Thomas and Nikita Zakharov

How terrorism affects support for democracy pp. 609-640

Philipp Kerler

George A. Selgin, False dawn: the New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933–1947. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xiv + 370 pages. USD 35.00 (hardback) pp. 641-648

William F. Shughart

Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge and Freedom pp. 649-654

Niclas Berggren

Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people pp. 655-658

Caleb Petitt

Volume 206, issue 1, 2026

Dysfunctional effects of altruism: an introduction to the symposium pp. 1-6

Alain Marciano

Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade pp. 7-25

John Meadowcroft

The Samaritan bureaucracy in international transfers pp. 27-46

Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall and Yahya Alshamy

Buchanan meets Tullock: aid, contests, and the Samaritan’s Dilemma pp. 47-79

Stefano Dughera and Alain Marciano

Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule pp. 81-106

Minh Tung Le and Alejandro Saporiti

Helping addicts: When can trying to do good be dysfunctional? pp. 107-128

Federico Guerrero, Mina Mahmoudi, Mark Pingle and Rattaphon Wuthisatian

Meritocracy and its discontents pp. 129-147

Steven N. Durlauf

Duncan Black and group decision-making: from early priority dispute to late recognition pp. 149-174

Herrade Igersheim

German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala pp. 175-197

Ricardo R. Noé

The royal touch pp. 199-220

Vladimir V. Maltsev and Alicia M. Plemmons

Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less? pp. 221-240

Stefano Caiazza, Franco Fiordelisi, Elina De Simone and Fabio Pisani

A game theory approach to football predictions pp. 241-261

Kerim Keskin

Electronic voting and invalid votes: evidence from a natural experiment in Peru pp. 263-281

Fernando M. Aragón, Alberto Chong and Angelo Cozzubo

Political and economic protests in authoritarian regimes pp. 283-307

Austin M. Mitchell, Kana Inata and Masaaki Higashijima

Volume 205, issue 3, 2025

The Russian–Ukrainian war: introduction to the symposium pp. 331-336

Leonid Krasnozhon

Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts pp. 337-361

Sang Hoo Bae and Leonid Krasnozhon

The Minsk Game pp. 363-386

Jesse Driscoll and Dominique Arel

Winners and losers of a Russian oil-export restriction pp. 387-417

Johan Gars, Daniel Spiro and Henrik Wachtmeister

Public choice and national defense: lessons for the Russian–Ukrainian war pp. 419-441

Nathan P. Goodman, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ilia Murtazashvili and Ali Palida

Research productivity during the Russian war in Ukraine pp. 443-467

Alessandra Guariglia, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Oleksandr Talavera and Olha Zadorozhna

Institutionally constrained drone adoption pp. 469-489

Garrett R. Wood

Good Czar, bad boyars: the political economy of Russian war propaganda pp. 491-512

Konstantin Zhukov

Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 513-536

Roger Koppl, Kira Pronin, Nick Cowen, Marta Podemska-Mikluch and Pablo Paniagua

Political competition and Chinese official data pp. 537-562

Chia-Yu Tsai

The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil pp. 563-588

Eduardo da Silva Mattos

The dynamics of political polarization and voting on economic issues: evidence from the Polish parliament, 2005–23 pp. 589-611

Jacek Lewkowicz, Michał Sękowski and Jan Fałkowski

Why so many representatives? Extending the cube root law to local assemblies pp. 613-632

Benoît Le Maux and Sonia Paty

Deregulation derailed: evidence from services markets liberalization in Croatia pp. 633-660

Peter Grajzl, Bruno Ćorić and Stjepan Srhoj

Volume 205, issue 1, 2025

Measuring constitutional loyalty pp. 1-18

Jerg Gutmann, Roee Sarel and Stefan Voigt

On the macroeconomic effects of fiscal reforms: fiscal rules and public expenditure efficiency pp. 19-47

Ablam Estel Apeti, Bao We Wal Bambe and Jean-Louis Combes

Testing Piketty’s hypothesis on the drivers of income inequality: evidence from panel VARs with heterogeneous dynamics pp. 49-77

Carlos Góes

Colonial rule and economic freedom pp. 79-104

João Pedro Bastos

Hidden ties: How kinship shapes the global shadow economy pp. 105-127

Shuyi Ding and Shuguang Jiang

The uneven impact of inequality on voter turnout in urban and rural Spain pp. 129-150

Juan Ignacio Martín-Legendre and Paolo Rungo

Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure? pp. 151-182

Mitchell Harvey

Political growth collapses pp. 183-217

Francisco Rodríguez and Patrick Imam

When efficient help is perceived as greed: experimental evidence pp. 219-235

Andrej Angelovski, Werner Güth, Simón Lodato and Christos Mavridis

Estimating the trade-off between higher turnout and a more representative election result pp. 237-264

Harm Rienks, Maarten Allers and Richard Jong-A-Pin

Durable cultural values and ethical voting: evidence from the 2008 presidential election in New York State pp. 265-281

Marc Poitras

Do political elites capture crop insurance? Evidence from Indian agricultural households pp. 283-301

Debdatta Pal

The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health pp. 303-325

Sojun Park

Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Risks in renaissance art: production, purchase, and reception pp. 327-330

Clara E. Piano