Public Choice

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Volume 155, issue 3, 2013

Slavery: a dual-equilibrium model with some historical examples pp. 189-209

Ron Rogowski

Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street pp. 211-228

Michael Dorsch

How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832 pp. 229-250

Toke Aidt and Raphael Franck

It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations pp. 251-271

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Gypsy law pp. 273-292

Peter Leeson

Progressive taxation and tax morale pp. 293-316

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

Economic voting in Portuguese municipal elections pp. 317-334

Rodrigo Martins and Francisco Veiga

Intergovernmental fiscal transfers as pork barrel pp. 335-353

Linda Veiga and Francisco Veiga

Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign? pp. 355-371

Pablo Amoros and M. Socorro Puy

Decision costs in legislative bargaining: an experimental analysis pp. 373-394

Luis Miller and Christoph Vanberg

Better that ten guilty persons escape: punishment costs explain the standard of evidence pp. 395-411

Matteo Rizzolli and Margherita Saraceno

Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry pp. 413-432

Axel Dreher and Martin Gassebner

Voters’ commitment problem and reforms in welfare programs pp. 433-448

David Hollanders and Barbara Vis

Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics? pp. 449-468

Andrew Young and Russell Sobel

Identity and redistribution pp. 469-491

Erik Lindqvist and Robert Östling

The political economy of fertility pp. 493-505

Thorsten Janus

Academic faculty governance and recruitment decisions pp. 507-529

Jens Prüfer and Uwe Walz

The economic value of military connections in Turkey pp. 531-552

Gökçe Göktepe and Shanker Satyanath

Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political economy, concisely: essays on policy that does not work and markets that do; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2009. xii + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth) and Anthony de Jasay (Edited with an Introduction by Hartmut Kliemt): Political philosophy, clearly: essays on freedom and fairness, property and equalities; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2010. xi + 347 pages. USD 24.00 (cloth) pp. 553-555

Michael Munger

Ron Smith: Military economics: the interaction of power and money pp. 557-559

Adam Pellillo

Ruth Grant: Strings attached: untangling the ethics of incentives pp. 561-563

Jason Brennan

Joseph Shaanan: Economic freedom and the American dream pp. 565-567

Joshua Hall

Volume 155, issue 1, 2013

Tax earmarking, party politics and gubernatorial veto: theory and evidence from US states pp. 1-18

Jeremy Jackson

The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization” pp. 19-41

William Pyle and Laura Solanko

Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development pp. 43-60

Adalgiso Amendola, Joshy Easaw and Antonio Savoia

Power indices in large voting bodies pp. 61-79

Dennis Leech

Independent central banks, regime type, and fiscal performance: the case of post-communist countries pp. 81-107

Cristina Bodea

Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems: the case of the environment pp. 109-137

Martin Halla, Friedrich Schneider and Alexander Wagner

Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner pp. 139-161

James Adams and Samuel Merrill

Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006 pp. 163-187

Indra Soysa and Krishna Vadlammanati

Volume 154, issue 3, 2013

Remembering Vincent Ostrom: unhorsing a dominant paradigm pp. 163-171

David Lowery

Trade openness and public expenditure. The Spanish case, 1960–2000 pp. 173-195

Estela Sáenz, Marcela Sabate and María Gadea

The timing of elections in federations: a disciplining device against soft budget constraints? pp. 197-215

Karolina Kaiser and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau

Bicameral bargaining and federation formation pp. 217-241

Ross Hickey

Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis pp. 243-258

Andrew Abbott and Philip Jones

Is there an incumbency advantage or cost of ruling in proportional election systems? pp. 259-284

Che-Yuan Liang

The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability pp. 285-313

Eoin McGuirk

Islam and democracy: a response pp. 315-321

Marek Hanusch

Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: a reply and update pp. 323-332

Niklas Potrafke

Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert D. Tollison: Economic origins of Roman Christianity pp. 333-335

Charles North

Dennis M.P. McCarthy: An economic history of organized crime: a national and transnational approach pp. 337-340

Nicholas Snow

Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East pp. 341-343

Mark Koyama

Volume 154, issue 1, 2013

The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources pp. 1-20

Matthias Busse and Steffen Gröning

Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system pp. 21-37

Adam Martin and Diana Thomas

Charitable giving in the German welfare state: fiscal incentives and crowding out pp. 39-58

Timm Bönke, Nima Massarrat-Mashhadi and Christian Sielaff

The politics of digits: evidence of odd taxation pp. 59-73

Asmus Olsen

Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units pp. 75-94

Claus Beisbart and Luc Bovens

Modeling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter? pp. 95-117

Katharina Schone, Wilfried Koch and Catherine Baumont

Committee jurisdiction, congressional behavior and policy outcomes pp. 119-137

John de Figueiredo

District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: a comment and reinterpretation pp. 139-148

John Carey and Simon Hix

District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences—a reply and new perspectives pp. 149-151

Marco Portmann, David Stadelmann and Reiner Eichenberger

Kevin A. Clarke, David M. Primo: A model discipline: political science and the logic of representations pp. 153-156

Paul Dragos Aligica

Jason Brennan: The ethics of voting pp. 157-159

Art Carden