Public Choice

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Volume 135, issue 3, 2008

The vote motive pp. 89-90

Gordon Tullock

Using state-level simulations in a political economy model of US trade policy pp. 91-107

Hugh Arce, Robert Koopman and Marinos Tsigas

How does ideology matter in the spatial model of voting? pp. 109-123

Garrett Asay

A stochastic derivation of the ratio form of contest success functions pp. 125-130

Hao Jia

Partisan politics and stock market performance: The effect of expected government partisanship on stock returns in the 2002 German federal election pp. 131-150

Roland Füss and Michael Bechtel

Liberalization and rent-seeking in China’s labor market pp. 151-164

John Bishop and Haiyong Liu

The second-order dilemma of public goods and capital accumulation pp. 165-182

Akira Okada

Political freedom, economic freedom, and income convergence: Do stages of economic development matter? pp. 183-205

Zhenhui Xu and Haizheng Li

Political instability and inflation volatility pp. 207-223

Ari Aisen and Francisco Veiga

Rent-seeking contests with incomplete information pp. 225-236

Mark Fey

Going once, going twice, sold! The committee assignment process as an all-pay auction pp. 237-255

Daniel Lee

Social preferences and private provision of public goods: A ‘double critical mass’ model pp. 257-276

Angelo Antoci, Pier Sacco and Luca Zarri

Step return versus net reward in the voluntary provision of a threshold public good: An adversarial collaboration pp. 277-289

Charles Cadsby, Rachel Croson, Melanie Marks and Elizabeth Maynes

Influencing rent-seeking contests pp. 291-300

Robert Ritz

Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence? pp. 301-317

Benny Geys and Jan Vermeir

Supersized votes: ballot length, uncertainty, and choice in direct legislation elections pp. 319-336

Peter Selb

US presidential elections and real GDP growth, 1961–2004 pp. 337-352

Kevin Grier

Making the first move pp. 353-373

Hanna Bäck and Patrick Dumont

The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror pp. 375-397

Jean-Paul Azam and Véronique Thelen

Functional unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment pp. 399-413

William Heller and K. Sieberg

Trending economic factors and the structure of Congress in the growth of government, 1930–2002 pp. 415-448

Stanley Winer, Michael Tofias, Bernard Grofman and John Aldrich

Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political business cycle? pp. 449-468

J. Stephen Ferris

Swing and a myth: a review of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter pp. 469-484

Loren Lomasky

Reflections on Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter pp. 485-487

Gordon Tullock

John Samples. The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform pp. 489-492

William Anderson

Peter Emerson, ed., Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy: Consensual Voting Procedures For Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees pp. 493-496

Joel Parker

Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad (Eds.) Institutions and Norms in Economic Development pp. 497-499

Mwangi Kimenyi

Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (eds.): Political competition and economic regulation pp. 501-503

Horst Feldmann

Volume 135, issue 1, 2008

Gordon Tullock’s Contribution to spontaneous order studies pp. 1-2

Peter Boettke

Maximizing behavior & market forces: the microfoundations of spontaneous order theorizing in Gordon Tullock’s contributions to Smithian political economy pp. 3-10

Peter Boettke

The Politics of Bureaucracy and the failure of post-war reconstruction pp. 11-22

Christopher Coyne

Gordon Tullock’s The Organization of Inquiry: A critical appraisal pp. 23-34

Bruce Caldwell

Spontaneous order and the common law: Gordon Tullock’s critique pp. 35-53

Todd Zywicki

Finding social dilemma: West of Babel, not east of Eden pp. 55-66

Richard Wagner

Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order pp. 67-78

Peter Leeson

Thinking about order without thought: the lifetime contributions of Gordon Tullock pp. 79-88

Michael Munger

Volume 134, issue 3, 2008

Rational benevolence in small committees pp. 139-146

Derek Clark and Christian Riis

What makes fiscal consolidations last? A survival analysis of budget cuts in Europe (1960–2004) pp. 147-161

Reyes Illera and Carlos Mulas-Granados

Public pensions and return migration pp. 163-178

Tim Krieger

Extension of the portfolio allocation model to surplus majority governments: a fuzzy approach pp. 179-199

Terry Clark, Jennifer Larson, John Mordeson and Mark Wierman

The political legislation cycle pp. 201-229

Francesco Lagona and Fabio Padovano

A power measure analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado pp. 231-246

Claus Beisbart and Luc Bovens

Voting to anger and to please others pp. 247-254

Amihai Glazer

The optimal jury size when jury deliberation follows a random walk pp. 255-262

Eric Helland and Yaron Raviv

The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data pp. 263-292

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Heinrich Ursprung

The extent of the population paradox in the Hungarian electoral system pp. 293-305

Attila Tasnádi

Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence pp. 307-328

Christian Bjørnskov and Nicolai Foss

Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states pp. 329-346

Nathan Ashby and Russell Sobel

Provoking a civil war pp. 347-366

Lorenzo Rocco and Zié Ballo

An economic or political Kuznets curve? pp. 367-389

Henry Tam

Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960) pp. 391-417

Toke Aidt and Bianca Dallal

Optimal taxation and economic growth: a comment pp. 419-427

Roderick Hill

Performance and prize decomposition in contests pp. 429-443

Gil Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai Schwarz

The choice of insurance in the labor market pp. 445-462

Michael Neugart

Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries pp. 463-488

George Economides, Sarantis Kalyvitis and Apostolis Philippopoulos

A rejoinder to “A commentary on ‘Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?’ ” pp. 489-490

Burton Abrams

Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State and Public Choice pp. 491-493

Daniel Sutter

New publications pp. 495-500

Michael Munger

Henry H. Bauer. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory pp. 501-504

William Shughart

Volume 134, issue 1, 2008

Introduction: Blogs, politics and power: a special issue of Public Choice pp. 1-13

Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell

The power and politics of blogs pp. 15-30

Henry Farrell and Daniel Drezner

Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China pp. 31-46

Rebecca MacKinnon

Meet the bridgebloggers pp. 47-65

Ethan Zuckerman

Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers pp. 67-86

Eszter Hargittai, Jason Gallo and Matthew Kane

Neither Hayek nor Habermas pp. 87-95

Cass Sunstein

What do bloggers do: an average day on an average political blog pp. 97-108

Laura McKenna and Antoinette Pole

New competencies in democratic communication? Blogs, agenda setting and political participation pp. 109-123

Deva Woodly

Blogging and political information: truth or truthiness? pp. 125-138

Michael Munger