Public Choice

1966 - 2025

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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

Volume 194, issue 3, 2023

Editorial announcement pp. 231-231

Peter T. Leeson

How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile pp. 233-247

Guillermo Larrain, Gabriel Negretto and Stefan Voigt

Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end of the Old Regime pp. 249-275

Touria Jaaidane, Olivier Musy and Ronan Tallec

Identifying the regulator’s objective: Does political support matter? pp. 277-295

Zach Raff

Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity? pp. 297-324

Wei-Fong Pan

Inequality, transaction costs and voter turnout: evidence from Canadian provinces and Indian states pp. 325-346

Bharatee Dash, J. Stephen Ferris and Marcel Voia

Turning out for redistribution: the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates pp. 347-367

Navid Sabet

The impact of voter turnout on referendum outcomes: evidence from Ireland pp. 369-393

Vincent Munley, Abian Garcia-Rodriguez and Paul Redmond

Economics as moral exchange: James Buchanan meets Martin Buber pp. 395-420

Tyler J. Brough and Randy T Simmons

Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm: Big data and the welfare state: how the information revolution threatens social solidarity pp. 421-426

Timothy Hicks

Hong Liu, The political economy of transnational governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 220 Pages. USD 142.85 (Hardcover) pp. 427-430

Fatih Kırşanlı

Volume 194, issue 1, 2023

The redistributive politics of monetary policy pp. 1-26

Louis Rouanet and Peter Hazlett

Decentralized revenue sharing from broadcasting sports pp. 27-44

Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan Moreno-Ternero

Expressive voting versus information avoidance: experimental evidence in the context of climate change mitigation pp. 45-74

Katharina Momsen and Markus Ohndorf

Party leaders as welfare-maximizing coalition builders in the pursuit of party-related public goods pp. 75-99

Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Public employment and homeownership dynamics pp. 101-155

Andrea Camilli and Pedro Gomes

Strategic effects of stock pollution: the positive theory of fiscal deficits revisited pp. 157-179

Maximilian Kellner

Serving two masters: the effect of state religion on fiscal capacity pp. 181-203

Antonis Adam and Sofia Tsarsitalidou

The grass is not greener on the other side: the role of attention in voting behavior pp. 205-223

Lucie Coufalová and Štěpán Mikula

Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 314 Pages. USD 32.99 (Paperback) pp. 225-228

Fatih Kırşanlı

John A. List: The voltage effect—how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale pp. 229-230

Egor Bronnikov