Public Choice

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Volume 190, issue 3, 2022

Editorial announcement pp. 263-263

William Shughart

In Janos Kornai’s memory pp. 265-271

Mehrdad Vahabi

Francesco Forte: an economist across boundaries pp. 273-280

Silvia Fedeli

Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation pp. 281-299

Benjamin Broman

Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization pp. 301-316

Mathieu Martin, Zéphirin Nganmeni, Ashley Piggins and Élise F. Tchouante

Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation pp. 317-344

Dmitriy Vorobyev

Party-related primacy effects in proportional representation systems: evidence from a natural experiment in Polish local elections pp. 345-363

Jarosław Flis and Marek M. Kaminski

Rational inattention and politics: how parties use fiscal policies to manipulate voters pp. 365-386

Samuele Murtinu, Giulio Piccirilli and Agnese Sacchi

Revealed political favoritism: evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel pp. 387-406

Momi Dahan and Itamar Yakir

Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design pp. 407-426

Stephen C. Phillips, Alex P. Smith and Peter R. Licari

Trust, regulation, and market efficiency pp. 427-456

Brandon N. Cline, Claudia R. Williamson and Haoyang Xiong

Partially verifiable deliberation in voting pp. 457-481

Jianan Wang

Institutional implant and economic stagnation: a counterfactual study of Somalia pp. 483-503

Daniel D. Bonneau, Joshua Hall and Yang Zhou

Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions pp. 505-508

Claudia R. Williamson

Mikayla Novak, Freedom in contention: social movements and liberal political economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 258 Pages. USD 105.00 (hardcover) pp. 509-512

Joshua D. Ammons

Volume 190, issue 1, 2022

Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers pp. 1-32

Christian Bjørnskov and Stefan Voigt

Is corruption distasteful or just another cost of doing business? pp. 33-51

Ritwik Banerjee, Amadou Boly and Robert Gillanders

Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes pp. 53-73

Jonas Klos, Tim Krieger and Sven Stöwhase

The flip side of power pp. 75-92

Friedel Bolle and Philipp E. Otto

Federal reserve appointments and the politics of senate confirmation pp. 93-110

Caitlin Ainsley

Dynamic anarchy: the evolution and economics of the beguny sect in eighteenth-twentieth century Russia pp. 111-126

Vladimir Vladimirovich Maltsev

Understanding cross-cultural differences in peer reporting practices: evidence from tax evasion games in Moldova and France pp. 127-147

Rustam Romaniuc, Dimitri Dubois, Eugen Dimant, Adrian Lupusor and Valeriu Prohnitchi

Immigrants as future voters pp. 149-174

Arye L. Hillman and Ngo Long

The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe pp. 175-204

Martin Rode

Political institutions and academic freedom: evidence from across the world pp. 205-228

Niclas Berggren and Christian Bjørnskov

The role of economic uncertainty in the rise of EU populism pp. 229-246

Giray Gözgör

Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger Meiners (eds), The Legacy of Bruce Yandle. Arlington, VA: Mercatus center, 2020. xviii + 270 pages. USD 19.95 (paperback) pp. 247-250

Michael David Thomas

Bryn Rosenfeld: The autocratic middle class: how state dependency reduces the demand for democracy pp. 251-253

Georgi Asatryan and Jack Kalpakian

Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled pp. 255-258

Mikayla Novak

Bart J. Wilson, The property species: mine, yours, and the human mind. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxvii + 230 Pages. USD 35.00 (Paperback) pp. 259-261

Jon Murphy

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