Public Choice

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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

Volume 193, issue 3, 2022

Collaboration as communication: writing with Geoffrey Brennan pp. 127-132

Loren Lomasky

Geoffrey Brennan: scholar and gentleman pp. 133-139

Keith Dowding

From Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies pp. 141-162

Alexander Theisen, Lynne Kiesling and Michael Munger

Capture and passive predation in times of COVID-19 pandemic pp. 163-186

Samira Guennif

How do increases in electric vehicle use affect urban toll ring prices? pp. 187-209

Lana Krehic

Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries? pp. 211-231

Pál Czeglédi

The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries pp. 233-261

Florian Haelg, Niklas Potrafke and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Optimal lockdowns pp. 263-274

David J. Hebert and Michael D. Curry

The Brexit referendum and three types of regret pp. 275-291

Stephen Drinkwater and Colin Jennings

Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests pp. 293-313

Oliver Engist and Felix Schafmeister

Vote buying and redistribution pp. 315-344

Alice Guerra and Mogens K. Justesen

Volume 193, issue 1, 2022

George stigler’s theory of economic regulation at 50 - introduction to a special issue pp. 1-5

Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas

“The theory of economic regulation” after 50 years pp. 7-21

Sam Peltzman

George J. Stigler’s theory of economic regulation, bootleggers, baptists and the rebirth of the public interest imperative pp. 23-34

Bruce Yandle

Regulatory capture and the dynamics of interventionism: the case of power utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944 pp. 35-61

Germain Belzile, Rosolino A. Candela and Vincent Geloso

The economic theory of regulation and inequality pp. 63-78

Dustin Chambers and Colin O’Reilly

International regulatory diversity over 50 years: political entrepreneurship within fiscal constraints pp. 79-108

Vlad Tarko and Ryan Safner

Regulation, competition, and the social control of business pp. 109-125

Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas

Volume 192, issue 3, 2022

Factors influencing the timing and type of state-level alcohol prohibitions prior to 1920 pp. 201-226

Eline Poelmans, John Dove, Jason E. Taylor and Ranjit S. Dighe

Long swings in the growth of government expenditure: an international historical perspective pp. 227-248

Marco Gallegati and Massimo Tamberi

The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars pp. 249-272

Soeren Schwuchow and George Tridimas

Opportunism and MPs’ chances of re-election: an analysis of political transformism in the Italian parliament pp. 273-308

Emanuele Brancati, Silvia Fedeli, Francesco Forte and Leone Leonida

Political economy of financial crisis duration pp. 309-330

Thanh Cong Nguyen, Vitor Castro and Justine Wood

Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe pp. 331-355

Samuel Mann, Nigel O’Leary and David Blackaby

Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence pp. 357-376

Tommy Krieger

Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by pp. 377-397

Benjamin Blau, Todd G. Griffith and Ryan J. Whitby

Correction to: Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments pp. 399-399

Angela Dills and Douglas A. Norton

David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School pp. 401-405

Peter Boettke

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Raufhon Salahodjaev, Toward a political economy of the commons: simple rules for sustainability pp. 407-409

Joshua Ammons

Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. Pandemic politics: the deadly toll of partisanship in the age of COVID. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xii + 400 Pages. USD 35.00 (hardcover) pp. 411-414

Rachael Behr

Mariana mazzucato, mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. New York, NY: harper business, 2021. 272 Pages. USD 29.99 (hardcover) pp. 415-418

Christian Sandström

Volume 192, issue 1, 2022

Industry size and regulation: Evidence from US states pp. 1-27

Marc Law and Patrick A. McLaughlin

The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections pp. 29-57

Abel François, Michael Visser and Lionel Wilner

Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school pp. 59-78

Ennio E. Piano and Tanner Hardy

Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox pp. 79-97

Eric Kamwa

Estimating the Effect of Rent-Seeking on income distribution: an analysis of U.S. States and Counties pp. 99-114

Vitor Melo and Stephen Miller

Congressional apportionment and the fourteenth amendment pp. 115-126

Keith L. Dougherty and Grace Pittman

Insuring legislative wealth transfers: theory and evidence pp. 127-144

Bryan P. Cutsinger, Alexander Marsella and Yang Zhou

Sincerely held beliefs: evidence on how religion in the classroom affects private school enrollments pp. 145-167

Angela Dills and Douglas A. Norton

Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy pp. 169-188

Brian Albrecht, Joshua Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter

Correction to: Power-sharing negotiation and commitment in monarchies pp. 189-191

Kana Inata

Correction to: Globalization and populism in Europe pp. 193-199

Andreas Bergh and Anders Kärnä