Public Choice

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Volume 101, issue 3-4, 1999

The Weak Government Thesis: Some New Evidence pp. 163-76

Jakob de Haan, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Geert Beekhuis

Tragedy of the Fiscal Common?: Fiscal Stock Externalities in a Leviathan Model of Federalism pp. 177-93

Matthias Wrede

Economic Outcomes and Voting Behaviour in a Multi-party System: An Application to the Netherlands pp. 195-213

Otto Swank and R Eisinga

Voting, Collective Action, and Liberalisation in Latin America: The Rise and Fall of the Hillinger Paradox pp. 215-33

Shanti P Chakravarty and David E Hojman

Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Education Subsidies pp. 235-49

Alexander Kemnitz

The Effect of Number and Size of Interest Groups on Social Rent Dissipation pp. 251-65

Guang-Zhen Sun and Yew-Kwang Ng

The Probability of Being Decisive pp. 267-83

A J Fischer

The Political Economy of Inflation: Bargaining Structure or Central Bank Independence? Erratum pp. 285-306

Torben Iversen

Volume 101, issue 1-2, 1999

Legislating from Both Sides of the Aisle: Information and the Value of Bipartisan Consensus pp. 1-22

David Epstein

Optimal Procurement Contracts under a Binding Budget Constraint pp. 23-37

Rosella Levaggi

The Double Dividend: Miracle or Fata Morgana? pp. 39-58

Klaus Zimmermann and John D Gaynor

Public Accounting Fudges towards EMU: A First Empirical Survey and Some Public Choice Considerations pp. 59-84

Bernard Dafflon and Sergio Rossi

Coexistence of Public and Private Job Agencies: Screening with Heterogeneous Institutions pp. 85-107

Dorothea Kübler

U.S. Interest Groups Prefer Emission Trading: A New Perspective pp. 109-28

Gert Svendsen

Property Rights vs. Redistribution: Which Path to National Wealth? pp. 129-45

Filip Palda

Volume 100, issue 3-4, 1999

The Provision of Public Services by Government Funded Decentralized Agencies pp. 157-84

Robin Boadway, Isao Horiba and Raghbendra Jha

Reversal of Fortune: The Politics and Economics of the Superconducting Supercollider pp. 185-201

Atin Basuchoudhary, Paul Pecorino and William Shughart

Economic Freedom and Equality: Friends or Foes? pp. 203-23

Niclas Berggren

Ideology, Economic Interests, and Congressional Roll-Call Voting: Partisan Instability and Bank of the United States Legislation, 1811-1816 pp. 225-43

Jeffery A Jenkins and Marc Weidenmier

A Note on the Political Economy of Immigration pp. 245-51

Fritz Sollner

Competing Bureaus and Politicians: A Compliance Approach to the Diversion of Public Funds pp. 253-70

Silvia Fedeli

Legal Expenditure as a Rent-Seeking Game pp. 271-88

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

Women's Suffrage and the Growth of the Welfare State pp. 289-300

Burton Abrams and Russell F Settle

Persistence in Government Spending Fluctuations: Reply pp. 301-02

Brian Goff

Volume 100, issue 1-2, 1999

On the Economic Theory of Interest Groups: Towards a Group Frame of Reference in Political Economics pp. 1-29

Frans van Winden

Rent-Seeking with Non-identical Sharing Rules: An Equilibrium Rescued pp. 31-38

Douglas Davis and Robert Reilly

The Two Freedoms, Economic Growth and Development: An Empirical Study pp. 39-64

Wenbo Wu and Otto A Davis

Structural Constraints on Partisan Bias under the Efficient Gerrymander pp. 65-84

Thomas W Gilligan and John Matsusaka

Are Economists More Selfish Than Other 'Social' Scientists? pp. 85-101

David Laband and Richard Beil

Policy Divergence in Multicandidate Probabilistic Spatial Voting pp. 103-22

James Adams

Lowering the Cost of Pollution Control versus Controlling Pollution pp. 123-34

Dwight R Lee

Volume 99, issue 3-4, 1999

The Political Economy of Inflation: Bargaining Structure or Central Bank Independence? pp. 237-58

Torben Iversen

Multiparty Spatial Competition with Probabilistic Voting pp. 259-74

James Adams

Rent Seeking and Rent Setting with Asymmetric Effectiveness of Lobbying pp. 275-98

Inderjit Kohli and Nirvikar Singh

Robust Voting pp. 299-310

Gilbert Bassett and Joseph Persky

Veterans Interests and the Transition to Government Growth: 1870-1915 pp. 311-26

Randall Holcombe

Immigration Reform, the INS, and the Distribution of Interior and Border Enforcement Resources pp. 327-45

Alberto Davila, Jose A Pagan and Montserrat Viladrich-Grau

In Defense of the Articles of Confederation and the Contribution Mechanism as a Means of Government Finance: A General Comment on the Literature pp. 347-56

Russell Sobel

Rethinking the Partisan Effects of Higher Turnout: So What's the Question? pp. 357-76

Bernard Grofman, Guillermo Owen and Christian Collet

Setting the Agenda: Electoral Competition, Commitment of Policy, and Issue Salience pp. 377-94

Amihai Glazer and Susanne Lohmann

The Effect of Government Size on the Unemployment Rate pp. 395-401

Burton Abrams

Market Failure, Government Failure, and the Private Supply of Public Goods: The Case of Climate-Controlled Walkway Networks pp. 403-37

Michael R Montgomery and Richard Bean

The Incidence of Overdissipation in Rent-Seeking Contests pp. 439-54

Michael Baye, Dan Kovenock and Casper de Vries

The Reciprocal Relationship between State Defense Interest and Committee Representation in Congress pp. 455-63

Thomas M Carsey and Barry Rundquist

Persistence in Government Spending Fluctuations: New Evidence on the Displacement Effect pp. 465-66

Martin T Bohl

Predicting the Institutional Effects of Term Limits: Erratum pp. 481

Daniel Franklin and Tor Westin

Volume 99, issue 1-2, 1999

Fiscal Illusion and the Australian Local Government Grants Process: How Sticky Is the Flypaper Effect? pp. 1-13

Andrew Worthington and Brian Dollery

The Effects of Campaign Spending on Electoral Outcomes: A Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 15-37

Dennis Coates

Why Do People Vote? An Experiment in Rationality pp. 39-55

Andre Blais and Robert Young

The Number of Rent-Seekers and Aggregate Rent-Seeking Expenditures: An Unpleasant Result pp. 57-62

J. Atsu Amegashie

The Design of Rent-Seeking Competitions: Committees, Preliminary and Final Contests pp. 63-76

J. Atsu Amegashie

Tax and Expenditure Limitations and the Fiscal Relationships between State and Local Governments pp. 77-102

Mark Skidmore

The Effect of Incomplete Information in a Threshold Public Goods Experiment pp. 103-18

Melanie B Marks and Rachel Croson

The Median Voter Model across Levels of Government pp. 119-38

Geoffrey K Turnbull and Peter M Mitias

The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good with Diminishing Marginal Returns pp. 139-60

Susan Laury, James Walker and Arlington Williams

When Registration Barriers Fall, Who Votes? An Empirical Test of a Rational Choice Model pp. 161-76

Craig Leonard Brians and Bernard Grofman

Friedman's Theory of Income Redistribution Up after Being Down for the Count pp. 177-84

Michael Brooks

Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance pp. 185-216

Steven Levitt and James Poterba