Public Choice

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Volume 70, issue 3, 1991

The Effect of Predatory Rent-Seeking on Household Saving and Portfolio Choices: A Cross Section Analysis pp. 251-65

Jean-Pierre Courbois

The Nature of Political Services, Legislative Turnover, and Television pp. 267-76

Kenneth V Greene

The Political Economics of Agricultural Price Support in Turkey: An Empirical Assessment pp. 277-98

A A Gurkan and H Kasnakoglu

The Political Economy of Sugar Legislation pp. 299-314

Richard K Harper and John Aldrich

Tests of Institutional versus Non-institutional Models of Local Public Expenditure Determination pp. 315-33

Gary J Reid

At-Large versus Ward Elections: Implications for Public Infrastructure pp. 335-42

Douglas Dalenberg and Kevin T Duffy-Deno

The Political Economics of Wackersdorf: Why Do Politicians Stick to Their Past Decisions? pp. 343-50

Franz Wirl

Volume 70, issue 2, 1991

Rules and Games pp. 121-49

Roy Gardner and Elinor Ostrom

Circumventing Formal Structure through Commitment: Presidential Influence and Agenda Control pp. 151-79

Daniel E Ingberman and Dennis A Yao

Asymmetric Information and the Electoral Momentum of Public Opinion Polls pp. 181-213

Alex Cukierman

Estimating the Likelihood of an Unpopular Verdict in the Electoral College pp. 215-24

William J Ball and David A Leuthold

Monopoly, Rent-Seeking, and Second Best Theory pp. 225-37

Roger Latham and Frances Perivancic

Balanced-Budget Redistribution as the Outcome of Political Competition: A Comment pp. 239-43

Peter Coughlin

The Half-Win Set and the Geometry of Spatial Voting Games: Research Note pp. 245-50

Scott L Feld and Bernard Grofman

Volume 70, issue 1, 1991

Fed Behavior in Periods of Price and Wage Controls pp. 1-10

Brian L Goff and Robert Tollison

Committees in Legislatures: A Property Rights Perspective pp. 11-20

Randall Holcombe and Glenn R Parker

Industry Characteristics and Interest Group Formation: An Empirical Study pp. 21-40

Brendan Kennelly and Peter Murrell

Does Duration of Political Control Matter? Interstate Differences in Branch-Banking Laws pp. 41-50

Thomas Klier and Michael McPherson

The Provocative Public Sector: Domestic Political Protest and Public Sector Growth in the OECD, 1965-1982 pp. 51-69

Frances H Oneal

Elections and Government Spending pp. 71-82

James L Payne

Competition in Political and Economic Markets pp. 83-88

Don L Coursey and Russell D Roberts

Employment of Inputs by a Rent-Seeking Firm: Comment and Extension to Non-minimum Cost Functions pp. 89-94

Peter Ellemann-Jensen

A Note on the Electorate's Most Preferred Inflation Rate pp. 95-97

Edward F Renshaw and Emery Trahan

Rent-Seeking in U.S. Government Budgets, 1900-88 pp. 99-106

Gerald W Scully

Volume 69, issue 3, 1991

Collusion and Rent-Seeking pp. 241-52

Michael Alexeev and Jim Leitzel

The Effect of School District Structure on Education Spending pp. 253-64

Barbara S Burnell

Determining the Classics in Social Choice pp. 265-77

Garey Durden

The Temporal Pattern of Economic Evaluations and Vote Choice in Senate Elections pp. 279-94

Brad Lockerbie

The Institutional and Political Factors Which Influence Taxation pp. 295-310

John Merrifield

Reaganomics and the Use of Collective Rebates pp. 311-22

William Orzechowski

Self-Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health pp. 323-43

Robert Tollison and Richard Wagner

A Brief Note on Welfare Benefits and Human Migration pp. 345-49

Richard Cebula

Incentives and Political Contributions pp. 351-55

David Joulfaian and Michael Marlow

Volume 69, issue 2, 1991

Ranking Economic Liberty across Countries pp. 121-52

Gerald W Scully and Daniel Slottje

Productivity in the United States and Its Relationship to Government Activity: An Analysis of 57 Years, 1929-1986 pp. 153-73

Edgar A Peden

General Interest and Redistribution with Self-Interested Voters: Social Contract Revisited pp. 175-96

Louis Lévy-Garboua

Liberty and Development: A Further Empirical Perspective pp. 197-210

Zane Spindler

An Analysis of Legislative Inefficiency and Ideological Behavior pp. 211-22

Rebecca Morton

Economic Growth and Alternative Deficit-Reducing Tax Increases and Expenditure Cuts: A Cross-Sectional Study pp. 223-31

Mohsen Fardmanesh

Volume 69, issue 1, 1991

Does the Flypaper Model Stick? A Test of the Relative Performance of the Flypaper and Conventional Models of Local Government Budgetary Behaviour pp. 1-18

Richard R Barnett, Rosella Levaggi and Peter Smith

Expropriation of Foreign Direct Investments: Empirical Evidence and Implications for the Debt Crisis pp. 19-38

Hartmut Picht and Volker Stuven

Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting pp. 39-49

Roger Congleton

Rent-Seeking and the Behavior of Regulators: An Empirical Analysis pp. 51-67

Michel Boucher

Reexamining Efficient Rent-Seeking in Laboratory Markets pp. 69-79

Jason Shogren and Kyung Baik

Risk Aversion and Rent-Seeking: An Extension and Some Experimental Evidence pp. 81-92

Edward L Millner and Michael D Pratt

Economic Performance and U.S. Senate Elections, 1958-1986 pp. 93-100

Randall W Bennett and Clark Wiseman

Why Political Parties Should Make Unbelievable Promises: A Theoretical Note pp. 101-05

Bruce T Coram

The Possibility of a Desirable Minimal State pp. 107-10

Pasour, E C,

Volume 68, issue 1-3, 1991

The Item Veto and State Government Expenditures pp. 1-15

James Alm and Mark Evers

The "Mess" of the Public Industrial Production in Austria: A Typical Case of Public Sector Inefficiency? pp. 17-40

Rainer Bartel and Friedrich Schneider

Incomplete Information, Income Redistribution and Risk Averse Median Voter Behavior pp. 41-55

John A Bishop, John P Formby and W. James Smith

The Effect of Constitutional Debt Limits on Stage Governments' Use of Public Authorities pp. 57-69

Beverly S Bunch

Anomalies in Political Economy pp. 71-89

Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger

A Constitutional Interpretation of the Firm pp. 91-106

Gifford, Adam,

Burden Sharing in the NATO Alliance: An Empirical Test of Alternative Views pp. 107-16

Rodolfo A Gonzalez and Stephen L Mehay

Rational Retaliation: Superpower Response to Crisis, 1948-1979 pp. 117-35

Patrick James

Public Sector Employee Voter Participation and Salaries pp. 137-50

Ronald N Johnson and Gary Libecap

A Spatial Model of Legislative Voting with Perceptual Error pp. 151-74

Krishna K Ladha

An Analysis of the Relationship between Various Redistributive Programs and Poverty pp. 175-84

Michael Nieswiadomy, K Hayes and Daniel Slottje

Regulation and Rent-Seeking: Prices, Profits, and Third-Party Transfers pp. 185-94

Chris Paul and Niles Schoening

Rights, Equity, and Economic Efficiency pp. 195-215

Gerald W Scully

An Empirical Investigation of Interstate AFDC Benefit Competition pp. 217-33

Patricia K Smith

Rent-Seeking in the Deregulatory Environment: State Telecommunications pp. 235-43

Paul E Teske

Local Benefit-Seeking and National Policymaking: Democrats vs. Republicans in the Legislature pp. 245-58

Mark A Zupan

X-Efficiency, Rent-Seeking and Social Costs: Comment pp. 259-65

Michael C Naughton and Roger Frantz

X-Efficiency, Rent-Seeking and Social Costs: Reply pp. 267-71

John P Formby, James P Keeler and Paul D Thistle

Privatization and Government Size pp. 273-76

Michael Marlow

Testing for Causality between Government Spending and Taxation pp. 277-82

George Provopoulos and Athanassios Zambaras

The War between the Rent Seekers pp. 283-89

Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway