Public Choice

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Volume 174, issue 3, 2018

Filip Palda: In memoriam pp. 213-217

Alexandre Couture Gagnon

The likelihood of social choice violations in rank sum scoring: algorithms and evidence from NCAA cross country running pp. 219-238

James Boudreau, Justin Ehrlich, Mian F. Raza and Shane Sanders

Politics, entertainment and business: a multisided model of media pp. 239-256

Alejandro Castañeda and Cesar Martinelli

Revenge: John Sherman, Russell Alger and the origins of the Sherman Act pp. 257-275

Patrick Newman

African chiefs: comparative governance under colonial rule pp. 277-300

Liya Palagashvili

Politically sustainable targeted transfers pp. 301-313

Philippe De Donder and Eugenio Peluso

Between-group contests over group-specific public goods with within-group fragmentation pp. 315-334

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ranajoy Guha Neogi

Budget institutions and taxation pp. 335-349

Lasse Aaskoven

The Grecian horse: does immigration lead to the deterioration of American institutions? pp. 351-405

Alexandre Padilla and Nicolas Cachanosky

Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner: Public debt: an illusion of democratic political economy pp. 407-409

Alexander Salter

Vlad Tarko, Elinor Ostrom: An intellectual biography pp. 411-414

Bobbi Herzberg

Volume 174, issue 1, 2018

Choosing a media outlet when seeking public approval pp. 3-21

Saltuk Ozerturk

Can behavioral economists improve economic rationality? pp. 23-40

Dwight R. Lee and J. R. Clark

These rules are made for spending: testing and extending the law of 1/n pp. 41-60

Germà Bel, Ringa Raudla, Miguel Rodrigues and António F. Tavares

Gaining new insights by going local: determinants of coalition formation in mixed democratic polities pp. 61-80

Martin Gross and Marc Debus

The politics of beer: analysis of the congressional votes on the beer bill of 1933 pp. 81-106

Eline Poelmans, John Dove and Jason E. Taylor

Public policy and the initiative and referendum: a survey with some new evidence pp. 107-143

John Matsusaka

Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey pp. 145-207

Niklas Potrafke

Peter T. Leeson: WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird pp. 209-211

David Skarbek

Volume 173, issue 3, 2017

Why noncompetitive states are so important for understanding the outcomes of competitive elections: the Electoral College 1868–2016 pp. 251-265

Jonathan R. Cervas and Bernard Grofman

Geometry of run-off elections pp. 267-288

Conal Duddy

Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust pp. 289-305

Benny Geys and Salmai Qari

An expressive voting model of anger, hatred, harm and shame pp. 307-323

Dwight R. Lee and Ryan Murphy

The supermajority core of the US Senate and the failure to join the League of Nations pp. 325-343

Gyung-Ho Jeong

The effect of legislature size on public spending: evidence from a regression discontinuity design pp. 345-367

Daniel Höhmann

James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states pp. 369-371

Ennio Emanuele Piano

Christopher Freiman: Unequivocal justice pp. 373-376

Brian Kogelmann

Volume 173, issue 1, 2017

What drives public acceptance of reforms? Longitudinal evidence from a Dutch pension reform pp. 1-23

Jante Parlevliet

Are voters cursed when politicians conceal policy preferences? pp. 25-41

Nichole Szembrot

The downsides of information transmission and voting pp. 43-59

Keith E. Schnakenberg

Cracking the whip: spatial voting with party discipline and voter polarization pp. 61-89

T. D. P. Waters

Closeness matters: monotonicity failure in IRV elections with three candidates pp. 91-108

Nicholas R. Miller

Efficient bilateral taxation of externalities pp. 109-130

Nicolaus Tideman and Florenz Plassmann

Sequential contests revisited pp. 131-144

Marco Serena

Reform of the United Nations Security Council: equity and efficiency pp. 145-168

Matthew Gould and Matthew Rablen

Crafting consensus pp. 169-200

Jan Zapal

Election outcomes under different ways to announce preferences: an analysis of the 2015 parliament election in the Austrian federal state of Styria pp. 201-216

Andreas Darmann, Julia Grundner and Christian Klamler

The dark side of price cap regulation: a laboratory experiment pp. 217-240

Christoph Engel and Klaus Heine

Richard E. Wagner: James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction pp. 241-243

Alexander Salter

Ian Kumekawa: The first serious optimist: A. C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics pp. 245-248

Peter Boettke

Aris Trantidis: Clientelism and economic policy: Greece and the crisis pp. 249-250

Nick Cowen

Volume 172, issue 3, 2017

In memoriam: Gebhard Kirchgässner (April 15, 1948–April 1, 2017) pp. 305-310

Lars Feld

Newspapers and political accountability: evidence from Japan pp. 311-331

Yukihiro Yazaki

Lobbying, political connections and emergency lending by the Federal Reserve pp. 333-358

Benjamin Blau

Unpacking pivotal politics: exploring the differential effects of the filibuster and veto pivots pp. 359-376

Thomas R. Gray and Jeffery A. Jenkins

Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement pp. 377-395

Murat C. Mungan

Erratum to: Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement pp. 397-397

Murat C. Mungan

Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investigation into voting behavior pp. 399-419

Paulo Arvate and Sergio Mittlaender

The ballot order effect is huge: evidence from Texas pp. 421-442

Darren Grant

The political economy of churches in Denmark, 1300–2015 pp. 443-463

Ella Paldam and Martin Paldam

Risk aversion and bandwagon effect in the pivotal voter model pp. 465-482

Alberto Grillo

More politicians, more corruption: evidence from Swedish municipalities pp. 483-500

Andreas Bergh, Günther Fink and Richard Öhrvall

Mystifying but not misleading: when does political ambiguity not confuse voters? pp. 501-524

Maarten Janssen and Mariya Teteryatnikova

Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives pp. 525-544

Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik and Frank Streif

Walter Scheidel: The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century pp. 545-548

Mark Koyama

Jared Rubin: Rulers, religion, and riches: Why the West got rich and the Middle East did not? pp. 549-552

Mark Koyama

Volume 172, issue 1, 2017

Quadratic voting and the public good: introduction pp. 1-22

Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl

Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: a history pp. 23-44

Beatrice Cherrier and Jean-Baptiste Fleury

Efficient collective decision-making, marginal cost pricing, and quadratic voting pp. 45-73

Nicolaus Tideman and Florenz Plassmann

The robustness of quadratic voting pp. 75-107

E. Glen Weyl

Uncertainty, polarization, and proposal incentives under quadratic voting pp. 109-124

John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Who will vote quadratically? Voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting pp. 125-149

Louis Kaplow and Scott Kominers

Towards secure quadratic voting pp. 151-175

Sunoo Park and Ronald L. Rivest

Quadratic voting as an input to cost-benefit analysis pp. 177-193

Jonathan S. Masur

Ethical considerations on quadratic voting pp. 195-222

Ben Laurence and Itai Sher

Equality, legitimacy, interests, and preferences: historical notes on Quadratic Voting in a political context pp. 223-232

Josiah Ober

The relationship between the normalized gradient addition mechanism and quadratic voting pp. 233-263

Daniel Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles Kimball and Derek Lougee

Quadratic election law pp. 265-282

Eric A. Posner and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos

Quadratic voting in the wild: real people, real votes pp. 283-303

David Quarfoot, Douglas Kohorn, Kevin Slavin, Rory Sutherland, David Goldstein and Ellen Konar