Public Choice

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Volume 189, issue 3, 2021

Heinrich Ursprung: a scholarly life pp. 305-312

Arye L. Hillman

The comparative endurance and efficiency of religion: a public choice perspective pp. 313-334

Anthony Gill

Characterizing plurality using the majoritarian condition: a new proof and implications for other scoring rules pp. 335-346

Jac Heckelman

State fiscal constraint and local overrides: a regression discontinuity design estimation of the fiscal effects pp. 347-373

Wenchi Wei

Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910 pp. 375-404

Vincent Geloso and Raymond J. March

Leave them kids alone! National exams as a political tool pp. 405-426

João Pereira Dos Santos, José Tavares and José Mesquita

The effect of mass legalization on US state-level institutions: Evidence from the immigration reform and control act pp. 427-463

Lili Yao, J. Brandon Bolen and Claudia R. Williamson

A Talmudic constrained voting majority rule pp. 465-491

Ronen Bar-El and Mordechai E. Schwarz

Trust and the protection of property rights: evidence from global regions pp. 493-513

Kee Hoon Chung and Hyeok Yong Kwon

Evidence and fully revealing deliberation with non-consequentialist jurors pp. 515-531

Jianan Wang

Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups pp. 533-554

Jac Heckelman and Bonnie Wilson

Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017 pp. 555-575

Marco Frank and David Stadelmann

The Democrat-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments pp. 577-601

Dodge Cahan and Niklas Potrafke

Ilya Somin, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 Pages. USD 29.95 (hardback) pp. 603-606

Ilia Murtazashvili

Scott scheall, F.A. Hayek and the epistemology of politics: the curious task of economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 200 Pages. USD 160.00 (hardback) pp. 607-612

Vlad Tarko

Volume 189, issue 1, 2021

Droughts and corruption pp. 3-29

Daniela Wenzel

Cyclical accountability pp. 31-49

Dieter Stiers and Anna Kern

Globalization and populism in Europe pp. 51-70

Andreas Bergh and Anders Kärnä

Legislative production and public spending in France pp. 71-91

François Facchini and Elena Seghezza

Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling pp. 93-114

Oded Stark and Ruxanda Berlinschi

Network structure and performance of crony capitalism systems credible commitments without democratic institutions pp. 115-137

Armando Razo

Foreign aid and terrorist groups: incidents, ideology, and survival pp. 139-160

Wukki Kim and Todd Sandler

Cold bacon: co-partisan politics in Brazil pp. 161-182

Diogo Baerlocher and Rodrigo Schneider

Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending pp. 183-212

Johannes Blum

The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis pp. 213-238

Vuk Vukovic

Approval and plurality voting with uncertainty: Info-gap analysis of robustness pp. 239-256

Yakov Ben-Haim

Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift pp. 257-277

Shane Sanders, Joel Potter, Justin Ehrlich, Justin Perline and Christopher Boudreaux

When do voters boycott elections with participation quorums? pp. 279-300

Karel Kouba and Michael Haman

Julian F. Müller: Political pluralism, disagreement and justice: the case for polycentric democracy, New York, NY: Routledge, 2019, 234 pp, USD 48.95 (paperback) pp. 301-303

Paul Dragos Aligica

Volume 188, issue 3, 2021

William R. Keech: in Memoriam pp. 301-302

Henry Chappell, Michael Munger and Georg Vanberg

The incidence and magnitude of the health costs of in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 303-332

Casey B. Mulligan

Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives pp. 333-359

Daniel Smith, George R. Crowley and J. Sebastian Leguizamon

Veto players, market discipline, and structural fiscal consolidations pp. 361-384

Markus Leibrecht and Johann Scharler

Do political motivations and strategic considerations influence municipal annexation patterns? pp. 385-405

Chris Mothorpe, W. William Woolsey and Russell Sobel

Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms pp. 407-430

Samuel Brazys and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Voting for the underdog or jumping on the bandwagon? Evidence from India’s exit poll ban pp. 431-453

Somdeep Chatterjee and Jai Kamal

Pay for politicians and campaign spending: evidence from the French municipal elections pp. 455-477

Nicolas Gavoille

Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level pp. 479-501

Peter Spáč

In the land of OZ: designating opportunity zones pp. 503-523

James Alm, Trey Dronyk-Trosper and Sean Larkin

Decomposing political advertising effects on vote choices pp. 525-547

Wilson Law

Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755 pp. 549-575

Rosolino A. Candela and Vincent J. Geloso

Andreas Thiel, William A. Blomquist, and Dustin E. Garrick (eds.): Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity pp. 577-581

Pablo Paniagua

Ludger Schuknecht, Public spending and the role of the state: history, performance, risk and remedies pp. 583-585

Niklas Potrafke

Kevin Vallier: Must politics be war? Restoring our trust in the open society. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2019, 243p, USD 90.00 (hardback) pp. 587-590

Alan Hamlin

Volume 188, issue 1, 2021

Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles? pp. 1-30

Bram Gootjes, Jakob Haan and Richard Jong-A-Pin

The instability of globalization: applying evolutionary game theory to global trade cooperation pp. 31-51

Sebastian Krapohl, Václav Ocelík and Dawid M. Walentek

Rally ’round which flag? Terrorism’s effect on (intra)national identity pp. 53-74

Colin R. Kuehnhanss, Joshua Holm and Bram Mahieu

A neighborly welcome? Charter school entrance and public school competition on the capital margin pp. 75-94

Michael Kofoed and Chris Fawson

Public expenditures and the risk of social dominance pp. 95-120

Ludger Schuknecht and Holger Zemanek

The value of political connections in the post-transition period: evidence from Czechia pp. 121-154

Miroslav Palansky

Are suicide terrorists different from ‘regular militants’? pp. 155-181

Amir Sabri and Günther Schulze

The gender wage gap: an analysis of US congressional staff members pp. 183-201

Peter Calcagno and Meg M. Montgomery

Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots: coalitions in Arkansas’ alcohol-legalization elections pp. 203-219

Jeremy Horpedahl

Expressive voting, graded interests and participation pp. 221-239

Dominik Klein

Marketing Communist Party membership in China pp. 241-268

Li Han and Tao Li

Risk aversion in two-period rent-seeking games pp. 269-287

Mario Menegatti

Stefan Voigt, Constitutional Economics: A Primer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ix + 138 Pages. USD 25.99 (paperback) pp. 289-292

Arye L. Hillman

David Skarbek: The puzzle of prison order: why life behind bars varies around the world. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2020, xiii + 240 pp, USD 27.95 (paperback) pp. 293-296

Malcolm M. Feeley

Randall G. Holcombe: Coordination, cooperation, and control: the evolution of economic and political power pp. 297-299

Michael Munger