Public Choice

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Volume 133, issue 3, 2007

Opaque rather than transparent: Why the public cannot monitor monetary policy pp. 259-267

Michael Belongia

Federal Reserve transparency: The more things change, the more they stay the same? pp. 269-273

Rob McGregor

Staff growth in international organizations: A principal-agent problem? An empirical analysis pp. 275-295

Roland Vaubel, Axel Dreher and Ugurlu Soylu

Do political variables affect fiscal policy adjustment decisions? New empirical evidence pp. 297-319

Jochen Mierau, Richard Jong-A-Pin and Jakob de Haan

Tax policies in a globalized world: Is it politics after all? pp. 321-341

Antonis Adam and Pantelis Kammas

Interest group activity and long-run stock market performance pp. 343-358

Dennis Coates and Bonnie Wilson

Rank injustice?: How the scoring method for cross-country running competitions violates major social choice principles pp. 359-375

Thomas Hammond

Determinants of interest group formation pp. 377-391

Dennis Coates, Jac Heckelman and Bonnie Wilson

The effect of monetary unification on public debt and its real return pp. 393-415

Roel Beetsma and Koen Vermeylen

Electoral cycles in the administration of criminal justice pp. 417-437

Andrew Dyke

The social sub-optimality of competitive elections pp. 439-456

Justin Buchler

The political economy of intergovernmental grants: Evidence from a maturing democracy pp. 457-477

Linda Veiga and Maria Pinho

Legislative term limits and state spending pp. 479-494

H. Erler

Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice pp. 495-495

Randall Holcombe

Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice pp. 497-498

Robert Tollison

Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice pp. 499-501

Roger Congleton

Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice pp. 503-505

Martin Ricketts

Volume 133, issue 1, 2007

The merits of Neo-Downsian modeling of the alternative vote: A reply to Horowitz pp. 1-11

Jon Fraenkel and Bernard Grofman

Where have all the parties gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the alternative vote – yet again pp. 13-23

Donald Horowitz

Individual rationality and bargaining pp. 25-29

Abraham Diskin and Dan Felsenthal

Political extremism in the presence of a free rider problem pp. 31-40

Elie Appelbaum and Eliakim Katz

Campaign spending and office-seeking motivations: an empirical analysis pp. 41-55

Joaquín Artés and Enrique Viñuela

The political economy linkage between trade liberalization and domestic environmental regulations pp. 57-72

Yu-Bong Lai

The Borda rule is also intended for dishonest men pp. 73-90

Aki Lehtinen

Election campaign resource allocation pp. 91-105

David Yi

Campaign finance reform and electoral competition: Comment pp. 107-110

Thomas Stratmann and Francisco Aparicio

Explaining legislators’ positions on outside income limits: Voting on honoraria ceilings in the U.S. Senate, 1981–1983 pp. 111-128

Beth Rosenson

Blood and ink! The common-interest-game between terrorists and the media pp. 129-145

Dominic Rohner and Bruno Frey

An analysis of rent-seeking games with relative-payoff maximizers pp. 147-155

Thomas Riechmann

Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation pp. 157-169

Wolfgang Buchholz and Wolfgang Peters

Monopoly rights in the privatization of telephone firms pp. 171-198

Bruno Viani

Crowding-out in productive and redistributive rent-seeking pp. 199-229

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Eric Langlais, Bruno Lovat and Francesco Parisi

Kyoto Protocol cooperation: Does government corruption facilitate environmental lobbying? pp. 231-251

Per Fredriksson, Eric Neumayer and Gergely Ujhelyi

Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice pp. 253-256

Peter Leeson

Barry G. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy pp. 257-258

Randall Holcombe

Volume 132, issue 3, 2007

Editorial announcement pp. 255-256

William Shughart, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard and Michael Munger

Understanding the development of fundamentalism pp. 257-271

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

Motivation of politicians and long-term policies pp. 273-289

Markus Müller

Nonexpert beliefs about the macroeconomic consequences of economic and noneconomic events pp. 291-304

Michael Roos

A distributional theory of government growth pp. 305-318

Holger Strulik

Colluding victims: A public choice analysis of international alliances pp. 319-332

Philip Jones

Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance pp. 333-352

Roger Congleton

Asymmetric payoffs in simultaneous and sequential prisoner’s dilemma games pp. 353-366

T. Ahn, Myungsuk Lee, Lore Ruttan and James Walker

The paradox of legal harmonization pp. 367-400

Emanuela Carbonara and Francesco Parisi

A minimax procedure for electing committees pp. 401-420

Steven Brams, D. Kilgour and Remzi Sanver

Reduce transaction costs? Yes. Strengthen property rights? Maybe: The First Nations Land Management Act and economic development on Canadian Indian reserves pp. 421-432

Christopher Alcantara

A commentary on “Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?” pp. 433-436

Jerry Tempelman

An empirical test of why incumbents adopt campaign spending limits pp. 437-456

Thomas Evans

Local choice of property taxation: evidence from Norway pp. 457-470

Jon Fiva and Jorn Rattso

How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union? pp. 471-484

Helge Berger and Till Mueller

Dupuit, Pigou and cost of inefficiency in public services provision pp. 485-502

Antonio Afonso and Vítor Gaspar

Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas pp. 503-504

Michael Munger

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865 pp. 505-507

Jeffrey Hummel

Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity pp. 509-511

Roger Congleton

Volume 132, issue 1, 2007

A further partial changing of the guard pp. 1-1

Charles Rowley and Robert Tollison

Old wine, new wine pp. 3-5

Robert Tollison

Israel and Palestine: the slow road to peace or the fast track to mutual annihilation? pp. 7-26

Charles Rowley and Michael Webb

Citizen-candidate mobility and endogenous local policy pp. 27-47

Oliver Lorz and Stanislav Nastassine

Tullock contests of weakly heterogeneous players pp. 49-64

Dmitry Ryvkin

Strikes are more common in countries with majoritarian electoral systems pp. 65-84

Kåre Vernby

Enlargement processes and distributional conflicts: The politics of discriminatory membership in the European Union pp. 85-102

Christina Schneider

The persuasive power of a Committee Chairman: Arthur Burns and the FOMC pp. 103-112

Henry Chappell, Rob McGregor and Todd Vermilyea

Ambiguous political power and contest efforts pp. 113-123

Gil Epstein, Igal Milchtaich, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai Schwarz

Business cycle and political election outcomes: Evidence from the Chilean democracy pp. 125-136

Rodrigo Cerda and Rodrigo Vergara

Strategic institutional choice: Voters, states, and congressional term limits pp. 137-157

Edward Lopez and R. Jewell

A race to liberalization? Diffusion of economic policy reform among OECD-economies pp. 159-178

Hans Pitlik

Who are the expressive voters? pp. 179-189

Stephen Drinkwater and Colin Jennings

Strategic ratification pp. 191-208

Macartan Humphreys

Public sector corruption and major earthquakes: A potentially deadly interaction pp. 209-230

Monica Escaleras, Nejat Anbarci and Charles Register

Candidate uncertainty, mental models, and complexity: Some experimental results pp. 231-246

Michael Ensley, Scott Marchi and Michael Munger

The Logic of Democracy pp. 247-249

John Merrifield

Book Review pp. 251-254

Michael Munger