Public Choice

1966 - 2025

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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

Volume 187, issue 3, 2021

Post-communist predation: modeling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states pp. 247-273

Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar

More political representation, more economic development? Evidence from Turkey pp. 275-299

Jie Zhang

Favoring co-partisan controlled areas in central government distributive programs: the role of local party organizations pp. 301-319

Özge Kemahlıoğlu and Reşat Bayer

Is constitutionalized media freedom only window dressing? Evidence from terrorist attacks pp. 321-348

Christian Bjørnskov and Stefan Voigt

Does economic globalization affect government spending? A meta-analysis pp. 349-374

Philipp Heimberger

Government ideology and fiscal consolidation: Where and when do government parties adjust public spending? pp. 375-401

Helmut Herwartz and Bernd Theilen

Party switching and political outcomes: evidence from Brazilian municipalities pp. 403-438

Henrique Hott and Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai

Ignoring the Electoral College: why public choice economists understate the probability of decisive voters pp. 439-454

Dwight R. Lee

Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries pp. 455-480

Lisa Chauvet and Marin Ferry

Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism pp. 481-499

Benny Geys and Øystein Hernæs

Power-sharing negotiation and commitment in monarchies pp. 501-518

Kana Inata

Peter J. Boettke, F. A. Hayek: Economics, political economy and social philosophy pp. 519-521

Mark Pennington

Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo: Authoritarianism and the elite origins of democracy pp. 523-525

Paul Dragos Aligica

Heiner Rindermann (2018) Cognitive capitalism: human capital and the wellbeing of nations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, xvi + 576 pp, USD 44.99 (paperback) pp. 527-531

Fritz Söllner

Hilton L. Root: Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective pp. 533-535

Mark Koyama

Volume 187, issue 1, 2021

Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai pp. 1-13

Mehrdad Vahabi

1956 in Hungary: as I saw it then and as I see it now pp. 15-26

János Kornai

Marx after Kornai pp. 27-32

Amartya Sen

Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx pp. 33-36

Mehrdad Vahabi

Socialism and Kornai’s revolutionary perspective pp. 37-54

Mehrdad Vahabi

Kornai’s Overcentralization and naïve empiricism pp. 55-62

Paul R. Gregory

Janos Kornai: a non-mainstream pathway from economic planning to disequilibrium economics pp. 63-83

Wladimir Andreff

János Kornai, the Austrians, and the political and economic analysis of socialism pp. 85-97

Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela

Kornai goes to Kenya pp. 99-110

Peter Leeson, Colin Harris and Andrew Myers

New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities pp. 111-142

Mathilde Maurel and Thomas Pernet

Disruptive innovation and R&D ownership structures pp. 143-163

Di Guo, Haizhou Huang, Kun Jiang and Chenggang Xu

Culture, institutions and democratization* pp. 165-195

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland

Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship? pp. 197-216

Peter Mihalyi and Iván Szelényi

Is there a demand for autocracies in Europe? Comparing the attitudes of Hungarian and Italian university students toward liberal democratic values inspired by János Kornai pp. 217-233

Miklos Rosta and László Tóth

Hungary's U-turn in Kornai's system paradigm perspective: a case for national authoritarian capitalism pp. 235-245

Pierre-Yves Hénin and Ahmet Insel