Public Choice

1966 - 2023

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Volume 195, issue 3, 2023

The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue pp. 193-196

Lars Feld and Daniel Nientiedt

Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism pp. 197-211

Lars Feld and Ekkehard A. Köhler

James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics pp. 213-230

Peter J. Boettke and M. Scott King

The rule of rules pp. 231-250

Alan Hamlin

Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency pp. 251-268

Viktor J. Vanberg

The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory pp. 269-281

Hartmut Kliemt

The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School pp. 283-300

Jan Schnellenbach

Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits pp. 301-322

Roland Fritz, Nils Goldschmidt and Matthias Störring

Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo pp. 323-339

Michael Munger and Georg Vanberg

The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism pp. 341-361

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger

Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism? pp. 363-376

Ekkehard A. Köhler and Daniel Nientiedt

Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely? pp. 377-404

Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt

Volume 195, issue 1, 2023

The political economy of public health pp. 1-3

Glenn L. Furton, Mario J. Rizzo and David A. Harper

Public choice and public health pp. 5-41

Peter Leeson and Henry Thompson

What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem pp. 43-53

Jonathan Anomaly

Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates pp. 55-72

Brian C. Albrecht and Shruti Rajagopalan

Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life pp. 73-100

Roger Congleton

Public health and expert failure pp. 101-124

Roger Koppl

Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom pp. 125-143

Mark Pennington

Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty? pp. 145-167

Mark Koyama

The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined pp. 169-191

Glenn L. Furton

Volume 194, issue 3, 2023

Editorial announcement pp. 231-231

Peter T. Leeson

How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile pp. 233-247

Guillermo Larrain, Gabriel Negretto and Stefan Voigt

Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime pp. 249-275

Touria Jaaidane, Olivier Musy and Ronan Tallec

Identifying the regulator’s objective: Does political support matter? pp. 277-295

Zach Raff

Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity? pp. 297-324

Wei-Fong Pan

Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states pp. 325-346

Bharatee Bhusana Dash, J. Stephen Ferris and Marcel Voia

Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates pp. 347-367

Navid Sabet

The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland pp. 369-393

Vincent Munley, Abian Garcia-Rodriguez and Paul Redmond

Economics as moral exchange: James Buchanan meets Martin Buber pp. 395-420

Tyler J. Brough and Randy T Simmons

Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm: Big data and the welfare state: how the information revolution threatens social solidarity pp. 421-426

Timothy Hicks

Hong Liu, The political economy of transnational governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 220 Pages. USD 142.85 (Hardcover) pp. 427-430

Fatih Kırşanlı

Volume 194, issue 1, 2023

The redistributive politics of monetary policy pp. 1-26

Louis Rouanet and Peter Hazlett

Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports pp. 27-44

Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan Moreno-Ternero

Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation pp. 45-74

Katharina Momsen and Markus Ohndorf

Party leaders as welfare-maximizing coalition builders in the pursuit of party-related public goods pp. 75-99

Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Public employment and homeownership dynamics pp. 101-155

Andrea Camilli and Pedro Gomes

Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited pp. 157-179

Maximilian Kellner

Serving two masters: the effect of state religion on fiscal capacity pp. 181-203

Antonis Adam and Sofia Tsarsitalidou

The grass is not greener on the other side: the role of attention in voting behavior pp. 205-223

Lucie Coufalová and Štěpán Mikula

Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 314 Pages. USD 32.99 (Paperback) pp. 225-228

Fatih Kırşanlı

John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale pp. 229-230

Egor Bronnikov

Volume 193, issue 3, 2022

Collaboration as communication: writing with Geoffrey Brennan pp. 127-132

Loren Lomasky

Geoffrey Brennan: scholar and gentleman pp. 133-139

Keith Dowding

From Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies pp. 141-162

Alexander Theisen, Lynne Kiesling and Michael Munger

Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic pp. 163-186

Samira Guennif

How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices? pp. 187-209

Lana Krehic

Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries? pp. 211-231

Pál Czeglédi

The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries pp. 233-261

Florian Haelg, Niklas Potrafke and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Optimal lockdowns pp. 263-274

David J. Hebert and Michael D. Curry

The Brexit referendum and three types of regret pp. 275-291

Stephen Drinkwater and Colin Jennings

Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests pp. 293-313

Oliver Engist and Felix Schafmeister

Vote buying and redistribution pp. 315-344

Alice Guerra and Mogens K. Justesen

Volume 193, issue 1, 2022

George stigler’s theory of economic regulation at 50 - introduction to a special issue pp. 1-5

Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas

“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years pp. 7-21

Sam Peltzman

George J. Stigler’s theory of economic regulation, bootleggers, baptists and the rebirth of the public interest imperative pp. 23-34

Bruce Yandle

Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944 pp. 35-61

Germain Belzile, Rosolino A. Candela and Vincent Geloso

The economic theory of regulation and inequality pp. 63-78

Dustin Chambers and Colin O’Reilly

International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints pp. 79-108

Vlad Tarko and Ryan Safner

Regulation, competition, and the social control of business pp. 109-125

Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas