Public Choice

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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

Volume 191, issue 3, 2022

Behavioral economics and public choice: introduction to a special issue pp. 285-292

Gregory DeAngelo and Bryan McCannon

Favoritism and cooperation pp. 293-307

Johanna Mollerstrom

Endogenous choice of institutional punishment mechanisms to promote social cooperation pp. 309-335

Anabela Botelho, Glenn Harrison, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Don Ross and Elisabet Rutstrom

When Syria was in Egypt’s land: Egyptians cooperate with Syrians, but less with each other pp. 337-362

Mazen Hassan, Sarah Mansour, Stefan Voigt and May Gadallah

Analytical thinking, prosocial voting, and intergroup competition: experimental evidence from China pp. 363-385

Rebecca Morton, Kai Ou and Xiangdong Qin

Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities pp. 387-404

Roger Congleton

Attention distribution as a measure of issue salience pp. 405-416

Libby Jenke and Michael Munger

Does money have a conservative bias? Estimating the causal impact of Citizens United on state legislative preferences pp. 417-441

Anna Harvey and Taylor Mattia

Nudging with care: the risks and benefits of social information pp. 443-464

Cristina Bicchieri and Eugen Dimant

Efficiency criteria for nudges and norms pp. 465-482

W Viscusi

Identity and off-diagonals: how permanent winning coalitions destroy democratic governance pp. 483-499

Peter J. Boettke and Henry Thompson

Volume 191, issue 1, 2022

On the Virginia school of antitrust: Competition policy, law & economics and public choice pp. 1-19

William Shughart

Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile pp. 21-30

Christian Salas

Fiscal performance and the re-election of finance ministers–evidence from the Swiss cantons pp. 31-49

Aurélia Buchs and Nils Soguel

Incentives for non-participation: absence in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–2015 pp. 51-73

Zoltán Fazekas and Martin Ejnar Hansen

Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games pp. 75-103

Sylvain Béal, Marc Deschamps, Mostapha Diss and Issofa Moyouwou

The calculus of dissent: Bias and diversity in FOMC projections pp. 105-135

Thomas Hogan

A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution pp. 137-159

Luke Petach

Rewarding conservative politicians? Evidence from voting on same-sex marriage pp. 161-172

Björn Kauder and Niklas Potrafke

Do women always behave as corruption cleaners? pp. 173-192

Alice Guerra and Tatyana Zhuravleva

Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research pp. 193-215

Benjamin C. K. Egerod and Wiebke Marie Junk

The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang pp. 217-235

Gregory W. Caskey and Ilia Murtazashvili

Protection for sale: evidence from around the world pp. 237-267

Andrew Jonelis and Wisarut Suwanprasert

Peter J. Boettke and Alain Marciano (eds.): The soul of classical political economy: James M. Buchanan from the archives pp. 269-271

John Meadowcroft

Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: Generality and predictability in monetary institutions pp. 273-276

Bryan Cutsinger

Peter J. Boettke and Solomon M. Stein (eds.), Buchanan’s tensions: reexamining the political economy and philosophy of James M. Buchanan, Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2018, 204 Pages, USD 16.95 (paperback) pp. 277-283

Nick Cowen and Aris Trantidis