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Volume 39, issue 3, 1982

Off-budget activities of local government: The bane of the tax revolt pp. 333-342

James Bennett and Thomas Dilorenzo

Beliefs and errors in voting choices: A restatement of the theory of fiscal illusion pp. 343-360

Richard Carter

A decentralized mechanism for siting hazardous waste disposal facilities pp. 361-370

David Goetze

The Section 8-Existing Housing program's administrative fee structure: A formal model of bureau behavior with empirical evidence pp. 371-386

Laura Langbein

An econometric analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's certiorari decisions pp. 387-398

Jan Palmer

A politico-financial model of local authority rents and rate fund contributions in the U.K pp. 399-414

Martin Ricketts

Toward an informational dynamics of collective choice pp. 415-420

Pam Brown

A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias pp. 421-425

Roger Congleton

Pareto optimality of policy proposals with probabilistic voting pp. 427-433

Peter Coughlin

Volume 39, issue 2, 1982

The growth of government in Italy: Evidence from 1861 to 1979 pp. 221-243

Michele Fratianni and Franco Spinelli

Centralized vote-trading pp. 245-268

Kenneth Koford

In defense of the downtrodden: Usury laws? pp. 269-276

William Boyes

A limited defense of Pareto optimal redistribution pp. 277-282

J. Giertz

The median voter and his elasticity of substitution pp. 283-289

Kenneth Greene

Peltzman on regulation and politics pp. 291-297

Victor Goldberg

Peltzman on regulation and politics: Reply pp. 299-300

Sam Peltzman

Bureaucratic productivity: The case of agricultural research revisited pp. 301-317

E. Pasour and Marc Johnson

Bureaucratic productivity: The case of agricultural research revisited — A rejoinder pp. 319-329

Vernon Ruttan

Review pp. 331-332

Gordon Tullock

Volume 39, issue 1, 1982

Introduction pp. 1-3

Allan Meltzer, Peter Ordeshook and Thomas Romer

The applied theory of regulation: Political economy at the Interstate Commerce Commission pp. 5-27

Marcus Alexis

The applied theory of regulation: Political economy at the Interstate Commerce Commission pp. 29-32

Thomas Moore

Legislative choice of regulatory forms: Legal process or administrative process? pp. 33-66

Morris Fiorina

Legislative choice of regulatory forms pp. 67-71

Albert Nichols

A political theory of regulation with some observations on railway abandonments pp. 73-106

Richard Barke and William Riker

A political theory of regulation with some observations on railway abandonments pp. 107-111

Mancur Olson

Representative voter or bureaucratic manipulation: An examination of public finances in California before and after Proposition 13 pp. 113-142

Perry Shapiro and Jon Sonstelie

Representative voter or bureaucratic manipulation: An examination of public finances in California before and after Proposition 13 pp. 143-145

Allan Zelenitz

The impacts of Proposition 13 upon the California political system: Re-regulating the intergovernmental system pp. 147-169

John Kirlin

The impacts of Proposition 13 upon the California political system: Re-regulating the intergovernmental system What system? What changes? pp. 171-178

Patrick Larkey

Proposition 13 and fiscal federalism pp. 179-184

Dieter Bös

Equilibrium and efficiency under pure entitlement systems pp. 185-212

Edward Green

Entitlement theory: Prospects and problems pp. 213-219

Thomas Schwartz

Volume 38, issue 3, 1982

Crisis of the tax state pp. 225-241

Dieter Bös

Utility profits, fiscal illusion, and local public expenditures pp. 243-252

Thomas DiLorenzo

How powerful are public bureaucrats as voters? pp. 253-262

Bruno Frey and Werner Pommerehne

Senatorial responsiveness, the characteristics of the polity and the political cycle pp. 263-269

Kenneth Greene and Hadi Salavitabar

Demand functions and the valuation of public goods pp. 271-280

Eli Noam

Interest groups in democracies — How influential are they? pp. 281-303

Friedrich Schneider and Jörg Naumann

Closeness counts in horseshoes and dancing... and elections pp. 305-316

Fred Thompson

Conflicting commons pp. 317-327

Bruce Yandle

Review pp. 329-334

Thomas Willett

Volume 38, issue 2, 1982

Microdata estimation of school expenditure levels: An alternative to the median voter approach pp. 113-128

John Akin and Michael Lea

A critique on the effectiveness of tax-expenditure limitations pp. 129-138

Dale Bails

The impact of labor costs on municipal finances pp. 139-147

William Hunter

Optimal voting rules under uncertainty pp. 149-165

Kenneth Koford

More thought about demand revealing pp. 167-170

Gordon Tullock

An economic analysis of crime rates, punishment, and the social consequences of crime pp. 171-179

Göran Skogh and Charles Stuart

The overstated economy: Implications of positive public economics for national accounting pp. 181-196

Zane Spindler

Unemployment rates and political outcomes: An incentive for manufacturing a political business cycle pp. 197-203

Ryan Amacher and William Boyes

Does there exist a political business cycle: A Box-Tiao analysis pp. 205-209

Nathaniel Beck

An alternate test of the Tiebout hypothesis pp. 211-217

Vincent Munley

Book reviews pp. 219-224

Dwight Lee, Gordon Tullock and Robert Tollison

Volume 38, issue 1, 1982

Why so much stability? An optimistic view of the possibility of rational legislative decisionmaking pp. 3-19

Kenneth Koford

Improving the behavior of public officials: Changing the method of compensation and changing officials pp. 21-33

Charles Knoeber

Comparative growth and comparative advantage: Tests of the effects of interest group behavior on foreign trade patterns pp. 35-53

Peter Murrell

Taxes and residential choice pp. 55-72

Chi-Yuan Tsai

Voluntary purchase of public goods pp. 73-85

Douglas Young

A thought experiment on demand-revealing mechanisms pp. 87-91

Howard Margolis

The Electoral College and voter participation rates: Comment pp. 93-94

Douglas Blair

The Electoral College and voter participation rates: Reply pp. 95-96

Richard Cebula and Dennis Murphy

Textbook public choice: A review essay pp. 97-112

William Mitchell