Public Choice

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Volume 181, issue 1, 2019

Rent seeking at 52: an introduction to a special issue of public choice pp. 1-4

Matthew D. Mitchell

On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft pp. 5-12

Roger D. Congleton

Rents and economic development: the perspective of Why Nations Fail pp. 13-28

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep pp. 29-47

Federica Carugati, Josiah Ober and Barry R. Weingast

Measuring rent-seeking pp. 49-69

David N. Laband and John P. Sophocleus

Rent-seeking in the classroom and textbooks: Where are we after 50 years? pp. 71-82

Joshua Hall, Josh Matti and Amir B. Ferreira Neto

Tullock and the welfare costs of corruption: there is a “political Coase Theorem” pp. 83-100

Michael C. Munger

A culture of rent seeking pp. 101-126

Seung Ginny Choi and Virgil Henry Storr

Transitional gains and rent extraction pp. 127-139

Randall Holcombe

The efficiency of regulatory arbitrage pp. 141-166

Vlad Tarko and Andrew Farrant

Uncontestable favoritism pp. 167-190

Matthew D. Mitchell

Volume 180, issue 3, 2019

Do sanctions lead to a decline in civil liberties? pp. 191-215

Antonis Adam and Sofia Tsarsitalidou

An empirical examination of institutions and cross-country incarceration rates pp. 217-242

Daniel J. D’Amico and Claudia Williamson

Adaptation and central banking pp. 243-256

Alexander W. Salter and William J. Luther

Is civic duty the solution to the paradox of voting? pp. 257-283

Abel François and Olivier Gergaud

The incumbent’s preference for imperfect commitment pp. 285-300

Matthias Wrede

Political regimes and publicly provided goods: why democracy needs development pp. 301-331

Martin Roessler

Electoral systems and trade-policy outcomes: the effects of personal-vote incentives on barriers to international trade pp. 333-352

Patrick Wagner and Michael Plouffe

Is the market for digital privacy a failure? pp. 353-381

Caleb S. Fuller

Sabotage in team contests pp. 383-405

Serhat Doğan, Kerim Keskin and Çağrı Sağlam

Intra-party politics and interest groups: missing links in explaining government effectiveness pp. 407-427

Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini and Fedra Negri

Elections, recession expectations and excessive debt: an unholy trinity pp. 429-449

Frank Bohn and Francisco José Veiga

Crowdfunding defense pp. 451-467

Garrett R. Wood

“Mao’s last revolution”: a dictator’s loyalty–competence tradeoff pp. 469-500

Ying Bai and Titi Zhou

Randall G. Holcombe: Political capitalism: how economic and political power is made and maintained pp. 501-503

Bryan P. Cutsinger

Milan Vaishnav, When crime pays: money and muscle in Indian politics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xxiii + 410 pages. USD 40.00 (cloth) pp. 505-509

Shruti Rajagopalan

Volume 180, issue 1, 2019

Regressive effects of regulation pp. 1-10

Diana W. Thomas

Reapplying behavioral symmetry: public choice and choice architecture pp. 11-25

Michael David Thomas

Do the poor want to be regulated? Public opinion surveys on regulation in the United States, 1981–2002 pp. 27-42

Jeremy Horpedahl

RegData 2.2: a panel dataset on US federal regulations pp. 43-55

Patrick A. McLaughlin and Oliver Sherouse

How do federal regulations affect consumer prices? An analysis of the regressive effects of regulation pp. 57-90

Dustin Chambers, Courtney A. Collins and Alan Krause

Regressive effects of regulation on wages pp. 91-103

James Bailey, Diana W. Thomas and Joseph R. Anderson

Stratification by regulation: Are bootleggers and Baptists biased? pp. 105-130

Sean E. Mulholland

Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states pp. 131-144

Dustin Chambers, Patrick A. McLaughlin and Laura Stanley

Banking regulation, regulatory capture and inequality pp. 145-164

G. P. Manish and Colin O’Reilly

Barriers to prosperity: the harmful impact of entry regulations on income inequality pp. 165-190

Dustin Chambers, Patrick A. McLaughlin and Laura Stanley

Volume 179, issue 3, 2019

Strategic and experimental analyses of conflict and terrorism pp. 169-174

Timothy Mathews and Shane Sanders

The attack and defense of weakest-link networks pp. 175-194

Dan Kovenock, Brian Roberson and Roman Sheremeta

Valuation structure in incomplete information contests: experimental evidence pp. 195-208

Diego Aycinena, Rimvydas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler

A game-theoretic analysis of international trade and political conflict over external territories pp. 209-228

Yang-Ming Chang and Manaf Sellak

A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers pp. 229-248

Aniruddha Bagchi, João Ricardo Faria and Timothy Mathews

The role of noise in alliance formation and collusion in conflicts pp. 249-266

James W. Boudreau, Shane Sanders and Nicholas Shunda

Stag hunt contests and alliance formation pp. 267-285

James W. Boudreau, Lucas Rentschler and Shane Sanders

Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker–defender interactions pp. 287-299

Timothy Mathews, Aniruddha Bagchi and João Ricardo Faria

A model of terrorism and counterterrorism with location choices pp. 301-313

Yang Jiao and Zijun Luo

Volume 179, issue 1, 2019

Introduction to a special issue in honor of Kenneth Arrow pp. 1-6

Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Weak rationalizability and Arrovian impossibility theorems for responsive social choice pp. 7-40

John Duggan

Social welfare with net utilities pp. 41-49

Jon Eguia and Dimitrios Xefteris

Exploring the effects of national and regional popular vote Interstate compact on a toy symmetric version of the Electoral College: an electoral engineering perspective pp. 51-95

Olivier Mouzon, Thibault Laurent, Michel Breton and Dominique Lepelley

Why Arrow’s theorem matters for political theory even if preference cycles never occur pp. 97-111

Sean Ingham

Reflections on Arrow’s theorem and voting rules pp. 113-124

Nicholas R. Miller

Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields pp. 125-131

Wulf Gaertner

Arrow, and unexpected consequences of his theorem pp. 133-144

Donald G. Saari

A defense of Arrow’s independence of irrelevant alternatives pp. 145-164

John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Remembering Kenneth Arrow: discount rates pp. 165-167

Kenneth A. Shepsle