Public Choice

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Volume 149, issue 3, 2011

The many faces of counterterrorism: an introduction pp. 225-234

Todd Sandler

Lock, stock, and barrel: a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror pp. 235-261

Martin Gassebner and Simon Luechinger

Who adopts MIND/FIND in INTERPOL’s fight against international crime and terrorism? pp. 263-280

Walter Enders and Todd Sandler

Counterterror intelligence operations and terror attacks pp. 281-295

Jonathan Feinstein and Edward Kaplan

The illicit drug trade, counternarcotics strategies and terrorism pp. 297-314

James Piazza

Terrorism, democratization, and US foreign policy pp. 315-335

Navin Bapat

Does terror increase aid? pp. 337-363

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid’s influence on transnational terrorism pp. 365-381

Joseph Young and Michael Findley

Earthquakes, hurricanes, and terrorism: do natural disasters incite terror? pp. 383-403

Claude Berrebi and Jordan Ostwald

Linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country pp. 405-425

Javier Gardeazabal

Social cohesion and self-sacrificing behavior pp. 427-440

Hirofumi Shimizu

Terrorist group survival: ideology, tactics, and base of operations pp. 441-463

Stephen Blomberg, Khusrav Gaibulloev and Todd Sandler

Counterterrorism strategies in the lab pp. 465-478

Daniel Arce, Sneha Bakshi, Rachel Croson, Catherine Eckel, Enrique Fatas and Malcolm Kass

Volume 149, issue 1, 2011

Public choice in a local government setting pp. 1-3

Randall Holcombe

Does fiscal decentralization constrain Leviathan? New evidence from local property tax competition pp. 5-30

George Crowley and Russell Sobel

The impact of fiscal decentralization on economics performance in high-income OECD nations: an institutional approach pp. 31-48

Whitney Buser

Municipal debt in Switzerland: new empirical results pp. 49-64

Lars Feld, Gebhard Kirchgässner and Christoph Schaltegger

The cartelization of local governments pp. 65-74

Randall Holcombe and DeEdgra Williams

The role of income in the formation of new cities pp. 75-88

Lawrence Kenny and Adam Reinke

Do housing bubbles generate fiscal bubbles? pp. 89-108

Razvan Vlaicu and Alexander Whalley

City government structure: are some institutions undersupplied? pp. 109-132

William Doerner and Keith Ihlanfeldt

The productivity of elected and appointed officials: the case of school superintendents pp. 133-149

Mark Partridge and Tim Sass

Municipal corporations, economic calculation, and political pricing: exploring a theoretical antinomy pp. 151-165

Richard Wagner

Social capital, lobbying and community-based interest groups pp. 167-185

Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Storr

Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance pp. 187-207

Roger Congleton

Quasimarket failure pp. 209-224

Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne and Peter Leeson

Volume 148, issue 3, 2011

Tullock challenges: happiness, revolutions, and democracy pp. 269-281

Bruno Frey

The limited effects of testimony on political persuasion pp. 283-312

Brendan Nyhan

Economic freedom, culture, and growth pp. 313-335

Claudia Williamson and Rachel Mathers

Resource allocation and voter calculus in a multicandidate election pp. 337-351

M. Roth

On the looting of nations pp. 353-380

Mare Sarr, Erwin Bulte, Christopher Meissner and Timothy Swanson

Proportional versus winner-take-all electoral vote allocations pp. 381-393

Patrick Hummel

Protest voting in plurality elections: a theory of voter signaling pp. 395-418

Daniel Kselman and Emerson Niou

On disclosure policy in contests with stochastic entry pp. 419-434

Qiang Fu, Qian Jiao and Jingfeng Lu

The Condorcet jury theorem and extension of the franchise with rationally ignorant voters pp. 435-443

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Mor Zahavi

Strategic voting in open primaries: evidence from Rush Limbaugh’s “operation chaos” pp. 445-457

E. Frank Stephenson

Power comes with responsibility—or does it? pp. 459-470

Friedel Bolle and Claudia Vogel

Government fragmentation versus fiscal decentralization and corruption pp. 471-490

Rajeev Goel and Michael Nelson

Imposing a turnout threshold in referendums pp. 491-503

Yoichi Hizen and Masafumi Shinmyo

Oil and the duration of dictatorships pp. 505-530

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Harald Oberhofer and Paul Raschky

Electoral accountability in a country with two-tiered government pp. 531-546

David Granlund

Political competition and politician quality: evidence from Italian municipalities pp. 547-559

Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

Monopoly vs. competition in light of extraction norms pp. 561-567

Arkadi Koziashvili, Shmuel Nitzan and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

Globalization, welfare regimes and social protection expenditures in Western and Eastern European countries pp. 569-594

Markus Leibrecht, Michael Klien and Ozlem Onaran

Do electoral institutions have an impact on population health? pp. 595-610

Simon Wigley and Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley

The political economy of the environmental criminal justice system: a production function approach pp. 611-630

Christian Almer and Timo Goeschl

Volume 148, issue 1, 2011

The proximity paradox: the legislative agenda and the electoral success of ideological extremists pp. 1-19

Justin Buchler

Election results and opportunistic policies: A new test of the rational political business cycle model pp. 21-44

Toke Aidt, Francisco Veiga and Linda Veiga

A theory of entangled political economy, with application to TARP and NRA pp. 45-66

Adam Smith, Richard Wagner and Bruce Yandle

Condorcet Polling pp. 67-86

Richard Potthoff

Securing the base: electoral competition under variable turnout pp. 87-104

Michael Peress

Free riders, holdouts, and public use: a tale of two externalities pp. 105-117

Thomas Miceli

Timely shirking: time-dependent monitoring and its effects on legislative behavior in the U.S. Senate pp. 119-148

René Lindstädt and Ryan Wielen

Elections and the strategic use of budget deficits pp. 149-161

Roland Hodler

Hold your nose and vote: corruption and public decisions in a representative democracy pp. 163-196

Marco Pani

One-dimensionality and stability in legislative voting pp. 197-214

Thomas Schwartz

Foreclosure in contests pp. 215-232

Derek Clark, Øystein Foros and Jan Sand

Opportunistic and partisan election cycles in Brazil: new evidence at the municipal level pp. 233-247

Sergio Sakurai and Naercio Menezes-Filho

Expressive voting and identity: evidence from a case study of a group of U.S. voters pp. 249-257

Arye Hillman

Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson: Media, development and institutional change pp. 259-261

Daniel Sutter

Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams: Experimental political science and the study of causality: from nature to the lab pp. 263-264

R. Isaac

Francesco Forte: Principles of public economics: a public choice approach pp. 265-267

Randall Holcombe