Public Choice

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Volume 129, issue 3, 2006

Does the Fed Contribute to a Political Business Cycle? pp. 249-262

Burton Abrams and Plamen Iossifov

Campaign finance reform and electoral competition pp. 263-300

John Lott

Appeasing nihilists? Some economic thoughts on reducing terrorist activity pp. 301-313

Jan Schnellenbach

Note on rent-seeking and committees using a proportionate-sharing rule pp. 315-319

Alan Lockard

The Design of Rent-Seeking Competitions: Committees, Preliminary, and Final Contests: Corrigendum pp. 321-322

J. Atsu Amegashie

The strategic advantage of interdependent preferences in rent-seeking contests pp. 323-352

Tobias Guse and Burkhard Hehenkamp

Contests with an unknown number of contestants pp. 353-368

Johannes Münster

Rent-seeking with asymmetric valuations: Addition or deletion of a player pp. 369-380

Alexander Matros

Public choice principles of redistricting pp. 381-398

Thomas Gilligan and John Matsusaka

Community size, heterogeneity and voter turnouts pp. 399-415

Serguei Kaniovski and Dennis Mueller

An experimental analysis of voting in the Stability and Growth Pact in the European Monetary Union pp. 417-434

Bernd Irlenbusch and Matthias Sutter

Do elections lead to informed public decisions? pp. 435-460

Otto Swank and Bauke Visser

Contribution limits and the effectiveness of campaign spending pp. 461-474

Thomas Stratmann

Rent-seeking with scarce talent: A model of preemptive hiring pp. 475-486

Sami Dakhlia and Paul Pecorino

Local government internal structure, external constraints and the median voter pp. 487-506

Geoffrey Turnbull and Gyusuck Geon

Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes pp. 507-510

Randall Holcombe

Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences pp. 511-514

Scott Page

Volume 129, issue 1, 2006

Endogenous timing of contest with asymmetric information pp. 1-23

Qiang Fu

Media scrutiny and the quality of public officials pp. 25-40

Daniel Sutter

Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns pp. 41-60

Eric Borgne and Ben Lockwood

Is compulsory voting more democratic? pp. 61-75

Keith Jakee and Guang-Zhen Sun

Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of the Turkish Parliamentary and Local Election Results Between 1950 and 2004 pp. 77-105

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

The political economy of the European customs classification pp. 107-130

Samia Tavares

Politics of Environmental Law: Political Ideology, Elitism or Urban-Rural Interests? pp. 131-157

William Anderson and Daniel Mizak

All voting is strategic pp. 159-167

James Buchanan and Yong Yoon

A computational electoral competition model with social clustering and endogenous interest groups as information brokers pp. 169-187

Vjollca Sadiraj, Jan Tuinstra and Frans Winden

Policy innovation in local jurisdictions: Testing for neighborhood influence in school choice policies pp. 189-200

Johannes Rincke

Does democracy “suffer” from diversity? Issue representation and diversity in senate elections pp. 201-215

Benjamin Bishin, Jay Dow and James Adams

Optimal contest design, closeness and the contest success function pp. 217-231

Marco Runkel

Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes pp. 233-237

R. Morris Coats

Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities & Limits of Reform pp. 239-241

Brendan Nyhan

Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy pp. 243-246

Cathérine Gamper

Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of the Federal Open Market Committee pp. 247-248

Kevin Grier

Volume 128, issue 3, 2006

In memoriam: Otto “Toby” Davis, 1934–2006 pp. 357-359

Melvin Hinich and Michael Munger

Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election pp. 361-366

Steven Brams, Michael Hansen and Michael Orrison

How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy pp. 367-381

Bryan Caplan

Everyone likes a winner: An empirical test of the effect of electoral closeness on turnout in a context of expressive voting pp. 383-405

John Ashworth, Benny Geys and Bruno Heyndels

Do fiscal rules dampen the political business cycle? pp. 407-431

Shanna Rose

The committee assignment process as an optimal contracting problem pp. 433-455

Joseph McGarrity

Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse pp. 457-476

Katharina Wick and Erwin Bulte

Vertical Competition in the Spanish National Health System (NHS) pp. 477-498

Joan Costa-Font and Ana Rico

A Life Reexamined pp. 499-500

Michael Munger

To Form a More Perfect Union: A new economic interpretation of the United States Constitution pp. 501-503

Keith Dougherty

For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy pp. 505-509

Lars Feld

Volume 128, issue 1, 2006

Terrorist Attacks on Western Civilization pp. 1-6

Charles Rowley

An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000 pp. 7-39

William Shughart

The Israel and Palestine land settlement problem: An analytical history, 4000 B.C.E.–1948 C.E pp. 41-75

Charles Rowley and Jennis Taylor

The Israel and Palestine land settlement problem, 1948–2005: An analytical history pp. 77-90

Charles Rowley and Jennis Taylor

Terrorism: The relevance of the rational choice model pp. 91-107

Bryan Caplan

Religious extremism: The good, the bad, and the deadly pp. 109-129

Laurence Iannaccone and Eli Berman

Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of terrorist recruitment: The role of culture pp. 131-146

Michael Munger

A law and economics perspective on terrorism pp. 147-168

Nuno Garoupa, Jonathan Klick and Francesco Parisi

Extremism, suicide terror, and authoritarianism pp. 169-195

Ronald Wintrobe

Institutional change in the absence of the rule of law and market mechanisms pp. 197-219

Anne Rathbone Bradley

International political system, supreme values and terrorism pp. 221-231

Peter Bernholz

Terrorism as theater: Analysis and policy implications pp. 233-244

Tyler Cowen

Hiding in plain sight – using signals to detect terrorists pp. 245-255

Atin Basuchoudhary and Laura Razzolini

Designing real terrorism futures pp. 257-274

Robin Hanson

Terrorism and pork-barrel spending pp. 275-287

R. Morris Coats, Gökhan Karahan and Robert Tollison

The political economy of freedom, democracy and transnational terrorism pp. 289-315

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Mogens Justesen and Robert Klemmensen

Terrorized economies pp. 317-349

Nicole Crain and W. Crain

The several costs of responding to the threat of terrorism pp. 351-356

William Niskanen