Public Choice

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Volume 157, issue 3, 2013

Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam pp. 357-365

Toke Aidt, Christian Bjørnskov, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard and Gert Svendsen

The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years pp. 367-385

Michael Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier

Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence pp. 387-410

Jakob de Haan and Jeroen Klomp

Voting functions in the EU-15 pp. 411-428

Linda Veiga

Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections pp. 429-448

Rodrigo Martins and Francisco Veiga

Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital pp. 449-474

Mogens Justesen and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Institutions and savings in developing and emerging economies pp. 475-509

Andreas Freytag and Sebastian Voll

Democratization and the size of government: evidence from the long 19th century pp. 511-542

Toke Aidt and Peter Jensen

The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy pp. 543-567

Désirée Teobaldelli and Friedrich Schneider

Inter-country differences in voter satisfaction with the democratic process: a study of world elections pp. 569-584

Vani Borooah, Anastasios Katos and Eleni Katsouli

Why does bureaucratic corruption occur in the EU? pp. 585-599

Urs Brandt and Gert Svendsen

Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis pp. 601-628

Zohid Askarov and Chris Doucouliagos

Trust as an alternative to risk pp. 629-639

Eric Uslaner

Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development? pp. 641-669

Christian Bjørnskov and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

The size of human capital externalities: cross-country evidence pp. 671-689

Rasmus Thönnessen and Erich Gundlach

Volume 157, issue 1, 2013

Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam pp. 1-2

Robert Tollison

Campaign contributions as valence pp. 3-24

Timothy Lambie-Hanson

Does a membership fee foster successful public good provision? An experimental investigation of the provision of a step-level collective good pp. 25-39

Mohamed Bchir and Marc Willinger

On political connectedness and the arrest of Ivan Boesky pp. 41-50

Charles Knoeber and Mark Walker

The provision of lighthouses services: a political economy perspective pp. 51-56

Laurent Carnis

The political economy of the Reconstruction Era’s race riots pp. 57-71

Art Carden and Christopher Coyne

Bandwagon effects in British elections, 1885–1910 pp. 73-90

Robert Hodgson and John Maloney

White supremacist groups and hate crime pp. 91-113

Sean Mulholland

Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries pp. 115-143

Tim Krieger and Jens Ruhose

Elections with partially ordered preferences pp. 145-168

Michael Ackerman, Sul-Young Choi, Peter Coughlin, Eric Gottlieb and Japheth Wood

A political economy model of market intervention pp. 169-181

Francisco Candel-Sánchez and Juan Perote-Peña

Tax decentralization and local government size pp. 183-205

Paolo Liberati and Agnese Sacchi

Political polarization, congressional redistricting, and trade liberalization pp. 207-221

James DeVault

Dispersed communication by central bank committees and the predictability of monetary policy decisions pp. 223-244

Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher

Political budget cycles and election outcomes pp. 245-267

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob Haan

Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification pp. 269-286

Christian Bjørnskov and Gert Svendsen

Policy persistence and rent extraction pp. 287-304

Silke Friedrich

Do re-election probabilities influence public investment? pp. 305-331

Jon Fiva and Gisle Natvik

Turnout and presidential coattails in congressional elections pp. 333-356

Jean-François Godbout

Volume 156, issue 3, 2013

The nationalization of electoral cycles in the United States: a wavelet analysis pp. 387-408

Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro Magalhães and Maria Soares

Institutional quality and the tenure of autocrats pp. 409-421

Randall Holcombe and Christopher Boudreaux

Do budgetary institutions mitigate the common pool problem? New empirical evidence for the EU pp. 423-441

Jakob Haan, Richard Jong-A-Pin and Jochen Mierau

Ideology and the size of US state government pp. 443-465

Andrew Pickering and James Rockey

Media proliferation and partisan selective exposure pp. 467-490

Jimmy Chan and Daniel Stone

Decentralization as a constraint to Leviathan: a panel cointegration analysis pp. 491-516

John Ashworth, Emma Galli and Fabio Padovano

Time to vote? pp. 517-536

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim, Steven Stillman and Geua Boe-Gibson

Electorally unstable by supply or demand?—an examination of the causes of electoral volatility in advanced industrial democracies pp. 537-561

Carina Bischoff

Two-round elections, one-round determinants? Evidence from the French municipal elections pp. 563-591

Aurélie Cassette, Etienne Farvaque and Jérôme Héricourt

Are bigger governments better providers of public goods? Evidence from air pollution pp. 593-609

Thomas Bernauer and Vally Koubi

Public employees lining up at the polls—the conditional effect of living and working in the same municipality pp. 611-629

Yosef Bhatti and Kasper Hansen

Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the analysis of political competition? pp. 631-651

Fabio Padovano

The politicians’ wage gap: insights from German members of parliament pp. 653-676

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch

Running for office again: evidence from Portuguese municipal elections pp. 677-702

Vitor Castro and Rodrigo Martins

Making rules credible: divided government and political budget cycles pp. 703-722

Jorge Streb and Gustavo Torrens

The rise and demise of theocracy: theory and some evidence pp. 723-750

Mario Ferrero

Douglas W. Allen: The institutional revolution: measurement & the economic emergence of the modern world pp. 751-752

Art Carden

Victor Nee, Sonja Opper: Capitalism from below: markets and institutional change in China pp. 753-755

Stephan Gohmann

Lawrence H. White: The clash of economic ideas: the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years pp. 757-759

Randall Holcombe

Volume 156, issue 1, 2013

James Buchanan: in memoriam pp. 1-5

Geoffrey Brennan

A tribute to Earl A. Thompson and, in his own words, a summary of his general economic and social theory pp. 7-29

Don Allison and Thomas Borcherding

Efficiency in the provision of pure public goods by private citizens pp. 31-43

C. Lindsay and William Dougan

The encomienda and the optimizing imperialist: an interpretation of Spanish imperialism in the Americas pp. 45-60

Ronald Batchelder and Nicolas Sanchez

Political institutions and sovereign borrowing: evidence from nineteenth-century Argentina pp. 61-75

Sebastián Saiegh

Candidate positioning and responsiveness to constituent opinion in the U.S. House of Representatives pp. 77-94

Michael Peress

The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization pp. 95-103

James Kostelnik and David Skarbek

The religious transition. A long-run perspective pp. 105-123

Martin Paldam and Erich Gundlach

Terrorist success in hostage-taking missions: 1978–2010 pp. 125-137

Charlinda Santifort and Todd Sandler

ABA ratings: what do they really measure? pp. 139-161

John Lott

Biased beliefs and retrospective voting: why democracies choose mediocre policies pp. 163-180

Ivo Bischoff and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

Electoral cycles in active labor market policies pp. 181-194

Mario Mechtel and Niklas Potrafke

Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries pp. 195-211

Helene Ehrhart

It can happen here: the impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe pp. 213-228

Henning Finseraas and Ola Listhaug

Inter-regional redistribution through infrastructure investment: tactical or programmatic? pp. 229-252

Albert Solé-Ollé

Endogenous institutions and the possibility of reverse crowding out pp. 253-284

R. Isaac and Douglas Norton

Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections pp. 285-307

Jürgen Huber and Michael Kirchler

Public employees and public sector reform implementation pp. 309-327

Hans Bonesrønning

Learning by doing in contests pp. 329-343

Derek Clark and Tore Nilssen

On the dynamics of legal convergence pp. 345-356

Bertrand Crettez, Bruno Deffains and Olivier Musy

Politicians: be killed or survive pp. 357-386

Benno Torgler and Bruno Frey