Public Choice

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Volume 161, issue 3, 2014

It’s not me, it’s you: the functioning of Wall Street during the 2008 economic downturn pp. 269-288

Edward Stringham

A hidden cost of war: the impact of mobilizing reserve troops on emergency response times pp. 289-303

Christopher Coyne, Abigail Hall, Patrick McLaughlin and Ann Zerkle

Presidential priorities, congressional control, and the quality of regulatory analysis: an application to healthcare and homeland security pp. 305-320

Jerry Ellig and Christopher Conover

Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis pp. 321-344

Vincenzo Bove and Roberto Nisticò

On the efficiency of equilibria in a legislative bargaining model with particularistic and collective goods pp. 345-366

Daniel Cardona and Antoni Rubí-Barceló

The causes of legal rents extraction: evidence from Spanish municipalities pp. 367-383

Bernardino Benito, Francisco Bastida, Ana-María Ríos and Cristina Vicente

Impact of natural disaster on public sector corruption pp. 385-405

Eiji Yamamura

Three-party competition in parliamentary democracy with proportional representation pp. 407-426

Seok-ju Cho

Political competition, party polarization, and government performance pp. 427-450

Rune Sørensen

Do jurisdictions compete on taxes? A meta-regression analysis pp. 451-470

Joan Costa-Font, Filipe De-Albuquerque and Chris Doucouliagos

Explaining variation in the competitiveness of U.S. Senate elections, 1922–2004 pp. 471-497

Stanley Winer, Lawrence Kenny and Bernard Grofman

Good news and bad news: evidence of media bias in unemployment reports pp. 499-515

Marcel Garz

Assessing strategic voting in the 2008 US presidential primaries: the role of electoral context, institutional rules, and negative votes pp. 517-536

D. Hillygus and Sarah Treul

Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community pp. 537-539

David Skarbek

Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar companion to public choice, second edition pp. 541-546

Edward Lopez

Filippo Sabetti and Paul Dragos Aligica (eds.), Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance pp. 547-549

Liya Palagashvili

Volume 161, issue 1, 2014

Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections pp. 1-9

Joseph Ornstein and Robert Norman

Distribution of transfers and soft budget spending behaviors: evidence from Italian regions pp. 11-29

Fabio Padovano

Campaigns, political mobility, and communication pp. 31-49

Hans Gersbach

Do barriers to candidacy reduce political competition? Evidence from a bachelor’s degree requirement for legislators in Pakistan pp. 51-72

Madiha Afzal

All-pay-all aspects of political decision making pp. 73-90

Thomas Giebe and Paul Schweinzer

Constitutional verbosity and social trust pp. 91-112

Christian Bjørnskov and Stefan Voigt

Buchanan and Tullock ignore their own contributions to expressive voting pp. 113-118

Dwight Lee and J. Clark

Global corruption and the shadow economy: spatial aspects pp. 119-139

Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

The effect of the election of prosecutors on criminal trials pp. 141-156

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Bryan McCannon

The impact of consumer advocates on regulatory policy in the electric utility sector pp. 157-181

Adam Fremeth, Guy Holburn and Pablo Spiller

Do the personal characteristics of finance ministers affect changes in public debt? pp. 183-207

Marc-Daniel Moessinger

The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments pp. 209-232

Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe and Thierry Madiès

Voter information and electoral outcomes: the Norwegian list of shame pp. 233-255

Arnt Hopland

T. Randolph Beard, David L. Kaserman, and Rigmar Osterkamp, The global organ shortage: economic causes, human consequences, policy responses pp. 257-259

Peter Zweifel

Ilya Somin, Democracy and political ignorance: why smaller government is smarter pp. 261-264

Stephen Miller

Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the military-industrial complex in the United States and Great Britain pp. 265-267

Abigail Hall

Volume 160, issue 3, 2014

Packed primaries and empty caucuses: voter turnout in presidential nominations pp. 295-312

Caitlin Jewitt

Weak Condorcet winner(s) revisited pp. 313-326

Dan Felsenthal and Nicolaus Tideman

Identifying the bandwagon effect in two-round elections pp. 327-344

Áron Kiss and Gábor Simonovits

Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of the initiative process pp. 345-366

John Matsusaka

Do constitutions matter? Evidence from a natural experiment at the municipality level pp. 367-389

Florian Ade

Immigration, redistribution, and universal suffrage pp. 391-409

Raul Magni-Berton

Reciprocity and resistance to comprehensive reform pp. 411-428

Urs Fischbacher and Simeon Schudy

Forecast dispersion, dissenting votes, and monetary policy preferences of FOMC members: the role of individual career characteristics and political aspects pp. 429-453

Stefan Eichler and Tom Lähner

The use of eminent domain in land assembly: The case of the Tennessee Valley Authority pp. 455-466

Carl Kitchens

The impact of closeness on electoral participation exploiting the Italian double ballot system pp. 467-479

Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

Kidnap insurance and its impact on kidnapping outcomes pp. 481-499

Alexander Fink and Mark Pingle

Ministerial gatekeeping and parliamentary involvement in the implementation process of EU directives pp. 501-519

Thomas König and Bernd Luig

Political interaction in the senate: estimating a political “spatial” weights matrix and an application to lobbying behavior pp. 521-538

B. Chupp

Transaction costs can encourage Coasean bargaining pp. 539-549

Alex Robson

Thomas Piketty: Capital in the twenty-first century pp. 551-557

Randall Holcombe

Brett M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: the social value of shared resources pp. 559-562

Alain Marciano

Wolfgang Kasper, Manfred E. Streit and Peter J. Boettke: Institutional economics: property, competition, and policies, 2nd ed pp. 563-565

G Manish

Edmund Phelps: Mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change pp. 567-569

Rosolino Candela

Volume 160, issue 1, 2014

Tom Borcherding pp. 1-6

Matt Lindsay, Robert Deacon and Darren Filson

Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections: does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter? pp. 7-24

James Adams and Samuel Merrill

An empirical analysis of alternative ways that terrorist groups end pp. 25-44

Khusrav Gaibulloev and Todd Sandler

Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration pp. 45-63

Brenton Peterson, Sonal Pandya and David Leblang

Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased? pp. 65-108

John Lott and Kevin Hassett

Voting Islamist or voting secular? An empirical analysis of voting outcomes in Egypt’s “Arab Spring” pp. 109-130

May Elsayyad and Shima’a Hanafy

Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law pp. 131-153

Michael Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann

The Chicago Fire of 1871: a bottom-up approach to disaster relief pp. 155-180

Emily Skarbek

State involvement in limiting textbook choice by school districts pp. 181-203

Michelle Phillips

Why do parties use primaries?: Political selection versus candidate incentives pp. 205-225

Fernando Aragon

Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia pp. 227-249

Jean-Paul Faguet and Fabio Sanchez Torres

What’s a losing party to do? The calculus of contesting state legislative elections pp. 251-273

Thomas Carsey and William Berry

Wilfred Dolfsma: Government failure: society, markets, and rules pp. 275-277

Peter Calcagno

Joshua Page: The toughest beat: politics, punishment, and the prison officers union in California pp. 279-281

Kaitlyn Harger

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, deliberating American monetary policy: a textual analysis pp. 283-286

Alexander Salter

David Levi-Faur (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Governance pp. 287-290

Paul Aligica

Erratum to: Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital pp. 291-291

Mogens Justesen and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Erratum to: Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860 pp. 293-293

Jeffrey Grynaviski and Michael Munger