Public Choice

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Volume 200, issue 3, 2024

Revolution and Institutional Change: an introduction to the special issue pp. 349-355

Mehrdad Vahabi

Quiet revolutions in early-modern England pp. 357-381

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Islamic revolution and Anfal pp. 383-401

Mehrdad Vahabi

Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution pp. 403-422

Tariq Basir, Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design? pp. 423-455

Justin T. Callais and Andrew T. Young

You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals pp. 457-472

Jack Goldstone

Movement split: how the structure of revolutionary coalitions shapes revolutionary outcomes pp. 473-495

Benjamin Abrams

Revolutions and rational choice: A critical discussion pp. 497-529

Pierre Courtois, Rabia Nessah and Tarik Tazdaït

Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change pp. 531-560

Diego Grijalva

Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism pp. 561-586

Jean-Paul Carvalho, Jared Rubin and Michael Sacks

Correction to: Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism pp. 587-588

Jean-Paul Carvalho, Jared Rubin and Michael Sacks

Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism) pp. 589-601

Vladimir Maltsev

On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children pp. 603-626

Louis Rouanet

Violence against noncombatant civilians in revolutionary conflicts: A psychosocial choice model and empirical tests, 1960–2018 pp. 627-647

Charles Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Volume 200, issue 1, 2024

The political economy of criminal governance pp. 1-24

David Skarbek

Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government pp. 25-42

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors: reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy pp. 43-64

Alexandru Savu

The political business cycle of tax reforms pp. 65-88

Lucia Rossel Flores, Martijn Huysmans and Joras Ferwerda

A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state pp. 89-118

Antonio Afonso, Joao Jalles and Ana Venâncio

Promotion prospects and policy choice: evidence from the land market in China pp. 119-147

Chang Xue and Xiaoyu Zhang

Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity pp. 149-171

Asaf D. M. Nitzan and Shmuel Nitzan

Conflict under the shadow of elections pp. 173-199

Antonis Adam, Maxime Menuet and Petros G. Sekeris

Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework pp. 201-236

Antonis Adam and Evi Tsavou

Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics pp. 237-256

Christian J. Sander

‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers pp. 257-284

Andrea Cintolesi

Axiomatization of plurality refinements pp. 285-292

Ali Ozkes and M. Remzi Sanver

Regional favoritism in access to credit pp. 293-321

Francis Osei-Tutu and Laurent Weill

Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession pp. 323-345

Aycan Katitas and Sonal Pandya

Correction to: Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival pp. 347-348

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg and Patrick E. Shea

Volume 199, issue 3, 2024

The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue pp. 187-191

Terry L. Anderson, Ilia Murtazashvili and Dominic P. Parker

Bureaucratic discretion in policy implementation: evidence from the Allotment Era pp. 193-211

Christian Dippel, Dustin Frye and Bryan Leonard

A reservation economic freedom index pp. 213-231

T. Stratmann

Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians pp. 233-255

D. Bruce Johnsen

The political economy of climate action in Indian Country pp. 257-283

Tessa Provins

When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada pp. 285-318

Donna Feir, Maggie Jones and David Scoones

Effects of per capita payments on governance: evidence from tribal casinos pp. 319-340

Adam Crepelle, Paasha Mahdavi and Dominic Parker

The calculus of american indian consent: the law and economics of tribal constitutions pp. 341-366

Ennio E. Piano and Louis Rouanet

Military societies: self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country pp. 367-385

Adam Crepelle, Tate Fegley and Ilia Murtazashvili

Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy pp. 387-404

Melinda Miller

Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country pp. 405-419

Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker

Volume 199, issue 1, 2024

Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue pp. 1-5

Simon Medcalfe and Shane Sanders

Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings pp. 7-26

Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich and James Boudreau

Borda count in a forward agenda pp. 27-44

Keith L. Dougherty and Robi Ragan

Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach pp. 45-63

Justin Ehrlich, Simon Medcalfe and Shane Sanders

The Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis re-examined using tax freedom measures: the case of post-Great Recession state-level gross in-migration pp. 65-81

Richard Cebula

Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons pp. 83-101

Jeremy Kettering and Shane Sanders

Conflict and agreement in the collective choice of trade policies: implications for interstate disputes pp. 103-135

Yang-Ming Chang and Manaf Sellak

The role of luck in political and economic competition: noisy all-pay auctions pp. 137-157

James W. Boudreau, Haikady N. Nagaraja, Lucas Rentschler and Shane D. Sanders

Moderating (mis)information pp. 159-186

Jacob Meyer, Prithvijit Mukherjee and Lucas Rentschler

Volume 198, issue 3, 2024

The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same-sex marriage pp. 237-268

Clara E. Piano, Rachael Behr and Kacey Reeves West

Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival pp. 269-295

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg and Patrick E. Shea

The political economy of rights pp. 297-316

Mario Ferrero

Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors pp. 317-342

Emanuele Bracco, Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maurizio Lisciandra

Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus pp. 343-360

Anthony Evans

Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy pp. 361-376

Simon C. Parker

The transfer of provincial officials and electricity transactions in China pp. 377-402

Mian Yang, Ruofan He and Panbing Wan

Regulatory independence may limit electoral holdup but entrench capture pp. 403-425

Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule

Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies? pp. 427-465

Carla Morvan and Sonia Paty

Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary pp. 467-492

Tamás Vasvári and Dóra Longauer

Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy pp. 493-529

Stefania Fontana and Giorgio d’Agostino

Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America pp. 531-593

Andreas Freytag, Miriam Kautz and Moritz Wolf

Volume 198, issue 1, 2024

Editorial announcement pp. 1-1

Peter T. Leeson

More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias pp. 3-23

Fabio Motoki, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Victor Rodrigues

Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19 pp. 25-45

Sezer Yasar and Ceyhun Elgin

Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power pp. 47-67

Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Jaakko Meriläinen and Janne Tukiainen

The impacts of political uncertainty on public financing costs: evidence from anti-corruption investigations in China pp. 69-91

Haoyu Gao, Fukang Chen and Yiling Ouyang

Regulatory capture in a resource boom pp. 93-127

Timothy Fitzgerald

Road maintenance over the local election cycle pp. 129-151

Margaret Bock and Benjamin Blemings

Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note pp. 153-159

Nicholas R. Miller

Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing? pp. 161-187

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Cynthia Fan Yang

Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size pp. 189-207

Andre Varella Mollick and Andre Vianna

The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest pp. 209-226

Luke Petach

Richard E. Wagner, Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023. v + 184 Pages. USD 110.00 (hardback) pp. 227-230

David J. Hebert

Sebastián Edwards, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 343 pages. USD $27.49 (hardback) pp. 231-235

Pablo Paniagua