Public Choice

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Volume 139, issue 3, 2009

Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics pp. 263-272

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

Islam’s democracy paradox: Muslims claim to like democracy, so why do they have so little? pp. 273-299

Charles Rowley and Nathanael Smith

Campaign contributions as a commitment device pp. 301-315

Zacharias Maniadis

Seat-vote curves, loyalty effects and the provincial distribution of Canadian government spending pp. 317-333

Vaughan Dickson

The uniqueness of pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games with risk-averse players pp. 335-342

Takeshi Yamazaki

It’s the economy, and then some: modeling the presidential vote with state panel data pp. 343-356

Leo Kahane

Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding pp. 357-369

Gil Epstein and Yosef Mealem

Informal institutions rule: institutional arrangements and economic performance pp. 371-387

Claudia Williamson

Fiscal adjustments: do labor and product market institutions matter? pp. 389-411

Athanasios Tagkalakis

Coalition politics and accountability pp. 413-428

Áron Kiss

Does trading votes in national elections change election outcomes? pp. 429-441

Frank Daumann and Alfred Wassermann

The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract pp. 443-459

Peter Leeson

Choice of law and legal evolution: rethinking the market for legal rules pp. 461-492

Emanuela Carbonara and Francesco Parisi

Federal, state, and local governments: evaluating their separate roles in US growth pp. 493-507

Matthew Higgins, Andrew Young and Daniel Levy

Volume 139, issue 1, 2009

Editorial announcement pp. 1-1

William Shughart

The legacy of Bismarck pp. 3-3

Gordon Tullock

Geographical redistribution with disproportional representation: a politico-economic model of Norwegian road projects pp. 5-19

Leif Helland and Rune Sørensen

Pivotal states in the Electoral College, 1880 to 2004 pp. 21-37

John Wright

(When and how) do voters try to manipulate? pp. 39-52

Sebastian Kube and Clemens Puppe

The robustness of the optimal weighted majority rule to probability distortion pp. 53-59

Eyal Baharad and Ruth Ben-Yashar

Educational business cycles pp. 61-82

Markus Tepe and Pieter Vanhuysse

Political decision of risk reduction: the role of trust pp. 83-104

Meglena Jeleva and Stéphane Rossignol

Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis pp. 105-119

Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

Third parties in equilibrium: comment and correction pp. 121-124

Haldun Evrenk

The political trend in local government tax setting pp. 125-134

Raffaella Santolini

An econometric analysis of counterterrorism effectiveness: the impact on life and property losses pp. 135-151

Konstantinos Drakos and Nicholas Giannakopoulos

Bribing potential entrants in a rent-seeking contest pp. 153-158

Lambert Schoonbeek

More evidence of the effects of voting technology on election outcomes pp. 159-170

Maarten Allers and Peter Kooreman

Seeking rents in the shadow of Coase pp. 171-196

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Sander Onderstal and Francesco Parisi

The economic effects of constitutions: replicating—and extending—Persson and Tabellini pp. 197-225

Lorenz Blume, Jens Müller, Stefan Voigt and Carsten Wolf

How fair is pricing perceived to be? An empirical study pp. 227-240

Charles Raux, Stéphanie Souche-Le Corvec and Yves Croissant

Public good provision under dictatorship and democracy pp. 241-262

Robert Deacon

Volume 138, issue 3, 2009

Political competition and economic performance: evidence from the Italian regions pp. 263-277

Fabio Padovano and Roberto Ricciuti

General Blotto: games of allocative strategic mismatch pp. 279-299

Russell Golman and Scott Page

Interest groups and economic performance: some new evidence pp. 301-315

Daniel Horgos and Klaus Zimmermann

The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism pp. 317-345

Bruno Frey, Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer

A model of candidate location with endogenous valence pp. 347-366

Alexei Zakharov

Politics and the implementation of public policy: The case of the US military housing allowance program pp. 367-386

Scott Carrell and Janice Hauge

Political institutions and debt crises pp. 387-408

Caroline Van Rijckeghem and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Rent-seeking contests with private values and resale pp. 409-422

Yong Sui

Economic integration and the relationship between profit and wage taxes pp. 423-446

Andreas Haufler, Alexander Klemm and Guttorm Schjelderup

What explains attitudes across US trade policies? pp. 447-460

Michael Hoffman

The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: evidence from a natural experiment pp. 461-474

Marcus Drometer and Johannes Rincke

The change in aggregate budget behavior in the 1990s: a cointegration-error correction model analysis pp. 475-482

Paul Blackley

Government spending and happiness of the population: additional evidence from large cross-country samples pp. 483-490

Rati Ram

Andreas Bergh and Rolf Höijer, eds., Institutional Competition pp. 491-492

Randall Holcombe

Wilfried Ver Eecke. Ethical Dimensions of the Economy: Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods pp. 493-494

Randall Holcombe

Volume 138, issue 1, 2009

Rejoinder to “The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment” pp. 1-2

Justin Buchler

How to avoid transferring a valuable asset pp. 3-8

Sam Bucovetsky and Amihai Glazer

The disadvantaged incumbents: estimating incumbency effects in Indian state legislatures pp. 9-27

Yogesh Uppal

Dictators, development, and the virtue of political instability pp. 29-44

Ronen Bar-El

Pre-electoral commitments and government formation pp. 45-64

Marc Debus

Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration pp. 65-81

Cesar Calderon and Alberto Chong

False advertising and experience goods: the case of political services in the U.S. senate pp. 83-95

Franklin Mixon, Rand Ressler and M. Gibson

Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: an empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting pp. 97-108

David Laband, Ram Pandit, John Sophocleus and Anne Laband

Does Wal-Mart reduce social capital? pp. 109-136

Art Carden, Charles Courtemanche and Jeremy Meiners

Ideologies, vested interest groups, and postal saving privatization in Japan pp. 137-160

Masami Imai

Public goods, group size, and the degree of rivalry pp. 161-169

Paul Pecorino

Non-voted ballots, the cost of voting, and race pp. 171-197

John Lott

Voluntary contributions with imperfect information: An experimental study pp. 199-216

Maria Levati, Andrea Morone and Annamaria Fiore

The social sub-optimality of competitive elections: comment pp. 217-219

Randall Holcombe

Individual campaign contributions and candidate ideology pp. 221-238

Michael Ensley

Voting on income tax exemptions pp. 239-253

Salvatore Barbaro and Jens Suedekum

Magnus Henrekson and Robin Douhan: The political economy of entrepreneurship, 2 vols pp. 255-256

Randall Holcombe

Johann Graf Lambsdorff, The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy pp. 257-258

Friedrich Schneider

Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe, eds., The Economics of Transparency in Politics pp. 259-261

Christopher Coyne