Public Choice

1966 - 2025

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On Democracy and Debt pp. 201-11: Erol Balkan and Kenneth V Greene
The Bias in Centrally Planned Prices pp. 213-26: David Levy
Are Economic Statistics Overproduced? pp. 227-42: Stephen Gillespie
Instrument Choice, Political Reform and Economic Welfare pp. 243-56: Robert Hahn
An Alternative to "A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction." pp. 257-68: Douglas A Huberman
The Ruthless Fed: A Critique of the AST Hypothesis pp. 269-75: G J Santoni and T Norman Van Cott
A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence pp. 277-83: Gary M Anderson, William Shughart and Robert Tollison
The Effect of Rent-Seeking on Family Income Levels: Some Suggestive Empirical Evidence pp. 285-91: Garey Durden

Protectionist Policies as the Regulation of International Industry pp. 101-10: Arye Hillman
Allocation Patterns of PAC Monies: The U.S. Senate pp. 111-28: Kevin Grier, Michael Munger and Gary M Torrent
On the Limits to Rent-Seeking Waste pp. 129-54: Delorme, Charles D, and Arthur Snow
Family Ties and Social Security in a Democracy pp. 155-67: Friedrich Breyer and J-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Bureaucracy, Inefficiency, and Time pp. 169-79: Paul Gary Wyckoff
The Optimal Subsidization of Baptists by Bootleggers pp. 181-89: Jason Shogren

Boards of Trustees, Agency Problems, and University Output pp. 1-9: Eugenia Toma
Shirking, Representation, and Congressional Behavior: Voting on the 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act pp. 11-33: Richardson, Lilliard E, and Michael Munger
The Simple Analytics of Slack-Maximizing Bureaucracy pp. 35-47: Paul Gary Wyckoff
Pressure Politics and Government Spending in Belgium pp. 49-63: Frank Naert
Economic Performance and Political Popularity in the Republic of Ireland pp. 65-79: Vani Borooah and Vidya Borooah
A Constitutional View of Legislative Pay pp. 81-86: David L Sollars
A Brief Empirical Note on the Tiebout Hypothesis and State Income Tax Policies pp. 87-89: Richard Cebula

Committees and the Core of the Constitution pp. 201-27: Gary J Miller and Thomas H Hammond
The Pits and the Core: Simple Collective Decision Problems with Concave Preferences pp. 229-42: James D Laing and Benjamin Slotznick
The Structure of the Banks Set pp. 243-51: Nicholas R Miller, Bernard Grofman and Scott L Feld
Probability Calculations for Transitivity of Simple Majority Rule with Anonymous Voters pp. 253-59: William V Gehrlein
General Fund Financing versus Earmarked Taxes: An Alternative Model of Budgetary Choice in a Democracy pp. 261-78: Alex Athanassakos
Collective Decision Making and the Limits on the Organization's Size pp. 279-91: Mark Gradstein, Shmuel Nitzan and Jacob Paroush
Power Indices and Probabilistic Voting Assumptions pp. 293-99: Dennis Leech

Invisible Decisive Coalitions in Large Hierarchies pp. 101-16: Thomas H Hammond and Paul A Thomas
The Economic Approach to Political Behavior: Governors, Bureaucrats, and Cost Commissions pp. 117-36: Mark McBride
Explanations of Protectionism in International Trade Votes pp. 137-53: Stanley D Nollen and Harvey J Iglarsh
Historical Considerations, Property Rights, and Budgets: A Comment on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve pp. 155-59: Mounts, W Stewart, and Clifford Sowell
The Theory of Economic Regulation and Public Choice and the Determinants of Public Sector Bargaining Legislation pp. 161-75: Melissa Waters and William J Moore
The Determinants of Public Sector Bargaining Legislation: Comment pp. 177-82: Reid, Joseph D, and Michael M Kurth
The Determinants of the Choice between Public and Private Production of a Publicly Funded Service Reconsidered pp. 183-88: Janet Rothenberg Pack
More on the Choice between Public and Private Production of a Publicly Funded Service pp. 189-94: Robert A McGuire, Robert L Ohsfeldt and T Norman Van Cott

Asymmetric Causality between Federal Spending and Tax Changes: Avoiding a Fiscal Loss pp. 1-13: Paul R Blackley
On the Efficiency of Law: A Public Choice Perspective pp. 15-36: Michael A Crew and Charlotte Twight
Why Is There a Seniority System? To Solve an Agency Problem pp. 37-50: Michael L Davis
Dynamic Optimization of Political Popularity in an Empirical Macroeconomic Model pp. 51-66: Joel M Guttman and Yochanan Shachmurove
On the Social Costs of Rent-Seeking versus the Social Costs of Production Flexibility pp. 67-77: Eliakim Katz and Barry Smith
On the Social Costs of Rent-Seeking versus the Social Costs of Production Flexibility: Comment pp. 79-81: Gordon Tullock
Rent-Seeking and Perestroika pp. 83-88: Ludger Schuknecht
The Role of Credible Commitments in State Finance: Review Article pp. 89-97: Barry Weingast

The Rational Timing of Parliamentary Elections pp. 201-16: Nathan Balke
Government and Growth: Cross-sectional Evidence pp. 217-27: Philip Grossman
Can Rents Run Uphill? A Note on the Theory of Regulation pp. 229-37: Jack High
Executive Veto and Spending Limitation: Positive Political Economy with Implications for Institutional Choice pp. 239-56: David Schap
Leadership and Expenditures in Rent-Seeking Models pp. 257-66: Barry Smith and Shlomo Weber
Can Reallocation of Rights Help to Avoid the Paretian Liberal Paradox? pp. 267-71: Friedrich Breyer
University Admission Requirements as Rent-Seeking pp. 273-79: Frank G Steindl
Vote Buying in a Stylized Setting: Comment pp. 281-86: Darryn Abraham
Vote Buying in a Stylized Setting: Reply pp. 287-89: James Buchanan and Dwight R Lee

An Analysis of Contributions and Contributors to Public Choice and the Journal of Law and Economics; 1973-1987 pp. 101-41: Garey Durden and James Marlin
Inflation Drag or Taxation in Drag: Responsible for the Rising Share of Government in Australian GDP? pp. 143-56: Peter Swan
Tollison Costs and Technological Innovation: The Case of Environmental Regulation pp. 157-65: Alden F Abbott and Gordon L Brady
The Last Period Problem in Politics: Do Congressional Representatives Not Subject to a Reelection Constraint Alter Their Voting Behavior? pp. 167-80: Mark A Zupan
Professional Associations and the Free Rider Problem: The Case of Optometry pp. 181-87: Sally Conway Kilbane and John Beck
Third Party Voting and the Rational Voter Model: Empirical Evidence from Recent Presidential Elections pp. 189-93: George A Chressanthis

Executive Budget Proposal, Executive Veto, Legislative Override, and Uncertainty: A Comparative Analysis of the Budgetary Process pp. 1-19: James Dearden and Thomas Husted
The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation: Towards a Unifying Framework pp. 21-47: Robert Hahn
Rent-Seeking for Pure Public Goods pp. 49-60: Eliakim Katz, Shmuel Nitzan and Jacob Rosenberg
The Layered Prisoners' Dilemma: Ingroup versus Macro-efficiency pp. 61-83: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Randy T Simmons
Decentralizing an Economy: The Role of Bureaucratic Corruption in China's Economic Reforms pp. 85-91: Barbara N Sands