Public Choice

1966 - 2025

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Volume 197, issue 3, 2023

Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue pp. 317-324

Ramon P. DeGennaro and Daniel J. Smith

Does discrimination in lending still persist? pp. 325-333

Harold A Black

Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance pp. 335-346

Michael Munger and Cameron Tilley

Individualism and racial tolerance pp. 347-370

Claudia Kramer

Investigating bank lending discrimination in the US using CRA-rated banks’ HMDA loan data pp. 371-395

Ken B. Cyree and Drew B. Winters

Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap pp. 397-420

J. Brandon Bolen, Gregory Elliehausen and Thomas W. Miller

ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with disabilities act and post-secondary educational attainment pp. 421-432

Nicholas Reinarts and Vitor Melo

Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods? pp. 433-454

Craig J. Richardson and Zachary D. Blizard

Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa pp. 455-470

Edward Peter Stringham

Introducing an index of rent seeking: a synthetic matching approach pp. 471-487

Vitor Melo and Elijah Neilson

Volume 197, issue 1, 2023

Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers pp. 1-62

Wesley H. Holliday and Eric Pacuit

Does the rule matter? A comparison of preference elicitation methods and voting rules based on data from an Austrian regional parliamentary election in 2019 pp. 63-87

Andreas Darmann and Christian Klamler

Wealth inequality and democracy pp. 89-136

Sutirtha Bagchi and Matthew J. Fagerstrom

The political economy of imperial power successions in ancient China pp. 137-166

Yaguang Zhang, Sitian Yu and Shengyi Zhang

The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity pp. 167-183

Vincent Miozzi and Benjamin Powell

Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery pp. 185-199

Phillip W. Magness, Art Carden and Ilia Murtazashvili

Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households pp. 201-225

Jante Parlevliet, Massimo Giuliodori and Matthijs Rooduijn

Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities pp. 227-251

Emanuel Wittberg and Mihály Fazekas

Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests pp. 253-282

Ratul Lahkar and Rezina Sultana

Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement pp. 283-309

Benjamin Monnery and François-Charles Wolff

Jonathan H. Adler (ed.), Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 373 pages. USD 139.99 (hardcover) pp. 311-315

Jordan K. Lofthouse

Volume 196, issue 3, 2023

Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue pp. 223-227

Jordan Adamson and Lucas Rentschler

Fines as enforcers’ rewards or as a transfer to society at large? Evidence on deterrence and enforcement implications pp. 229-255

Florian Baumann, Sophie Bienenstock, Tim Friehe and Maiva Ropaul

Local income inequality, rent-seeking detection, and equalization: a laboratory experiment pp. 257-275

Giuseppe Liddo and Andrea Morone

The vanishing trial: a dynamic model with adaptive agents pp. 277-298

Moti Michaeli and Yosef Zohar

Prosecutor plea bargaining and conviction rate structure: evidence from an experiment pp. 299-329

Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler and Charles North

Deterrence, settlement, and litigation under adversarial versus inquisitorial systems pp. 331-356

Alice Guerra, Maria Maraki, Baptiste Massenot and Christian Thöni

Bureaucratic beliefs and law enforcement pp. 357-379

Fuhai Hong and Dong Zhang

The extensive reach of the FCPA beyond American borders: Is a bad deal always better than a good trial? pp. 381-401

Sophie Bienenstock and Pierre Kopp

Enumerating rights: more is not always better pp. 403-425

Sheryl Ball, Chetan Dave and Stefan Dodds

Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials pp. 427-452

Natalia Candelo, Angela C. M. Oliveira and Catherine Eckel

Do civilian complaints against police get punished? pp. 453-482

Gregory DeAngelo, Matthew Gomies and Rustam Romaniuc

Volume 196, issue 1, 2023

Beyond Pigou: externalities and civil society in the supply–demand framework pp. 1-18

Casey B. Mulligan

Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect pp. 19-50

David McCune and Jennifer Wilson

How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences pp. 51-83

Rik Chakraborti and Gavin Roberts

Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act pp. 85-122

Daniel J. Smith and Macy Scheck

From defunding to refunding police: institutions and the persistence of policing budgets pp. 123-140

Tate Fegley and Ilia Murtazashvili

In defense of knavish constitutions pp. 141-156

Brian Kogelmann

The transformative impact of rent-seeking theory on the study of public choice pp. 157-167

Randall Holcombe

On two voting systems that combine approval and preferences: fallback voting and preference approval voting pp. 169-205

Eric Kamwa

Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: a new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback) pp. 207-211

Ilia Murtazashvili

Martin Wolf: The crisis of democratic capitalism pp. 213-215

André Quintas

Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback) pp. 217-222

Ryan H. Murphy

Volume 195, issue 3, 2023

The Freiburg School and the Virginia School: introduction to the special issue pp. 193-196

Lars Feld and Daniel Nientiedt

Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism pp. 197-211

Lars Feld and Ekkehard Köhler

James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics pp. 213-230

Peter J. Boettke and M. Scott King

The rule of rules pp. 231-250

Alan Hamlin

Liberalism and democracy: legitimacy and institutional expediency pp. 251-268

Viktor J. Vanberg

The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory pp. 269-281

Hartmut Kliemt

The concept of Ordnungspolitik: rule-based economic policymaking from the perspective of the Freiburg School pp. 283-300

Jan Schnellenbach

Contextual liberalism: the ordoliberal approach to private vices and public benefits pp. 301-322

Roland Fritz, Nils Goldschmidt and Matthias Störring

Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo pp. 323-339

Michael Munger and Georg Vanberg

The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism pp. 341-361

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger

Was Walter Eucken a proponent of authoritarian liberalism? pp. 363-376

Ekkehard Köhler and Daniel Nientiedt

Militant constitutionalism: a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely? pp. 377-404

Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt

Volume 195, issue 1, 2023

The political economy of public health pp. 1-3

Glenn L. Furton, Mario J. Rizzo and David A. Harper

Public choice and public health pp. 5-41

Peter Leeson and Henry Thompson

What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem pp. 43-53

Jonathan Anomaly

Inframarginal externalities: COVID-19, vaccines, and universal mandates pp. 55-72

Brian Albrecht and Shruti Rajagopalan

Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life pp. 73-100

Roger Congleton

Public health and expert failure pp. 101-124

Roger Koppl

Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom pp. 125-143

Mark Pennington

Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty? pp. 145-167

Mark Koyama

The pox of politics: Troesken’s tradeoff reexamined pp. 169-191

Glenn L. Furton