Public Choice

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Volume 185, issue 3, 2020

Learning from each other: causal inference and American political development pp. 245-251

Jeffery A. Jenkins, Nolan McCarty and Charles Stewart

A developmental approach to historical causal inference pp. 253-279

David A. Bateman and Dawn Langan Teele

The inferential opportunity of specificity: theory and empirical causality in American Political Development pp. 281-298

Corrine M. McConnaughy

American political development and new challenges of causal inference pp. 299-314

Gregory J. Wawro and Ira Katznelson

Causes, theories, and the past in political science pp. 315-333

Sanford C. Gordon and Hannah K. Simpson

Game theory and the study of American political development pp. 335-357

Sean Gailmard

Causal inference and American political development: contrasts and complementarities pp. 359-376

Devin Caughey and Sara Chatfield

Applying regression discontinuity designs to American political development pp. 377-399

Anna Harvey

Randomized experiments by government institutions and American political development pp. 401-413

Christian R. Grose and Abby K. Wood

How we (should?) study Congress and history pp. 415-427

Sarah Binder

Causal inference and American political development: the case of the gag rule pp. 429-457

Jeffery A. Jenkins and Charles Stewart

The effect of majority party agenda setting on roll calls pp. 459-483

Joshua D. Clinton

Let’s not conflate APD with political history, and other reflections on “Causal Inference and American Political Development” pp. 485-500

Daniel J. Galvin

Causal inference and American political development: common challenges and opportunities pp. 501-511

Eric Schickler

Volume 185, issue 1, 2020

Public resource allocation, strategic behavior, and status quo bias in choice experiments pp. 1-19

Katherine Carson, Susan M. Chilton, W. George Hutchinson and Riccardo Scarpa

Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes pp. 21-43

Christian Bjørnskov

The Alma Mater effect: Does foreign education of political leaders influence UNGA voting? pp. 45-64

Axel Dreher and Shu Yu

Distributive spending and presidential partisan politics pp. 65-85

Yaniv Reingewertz and Thushyanthan Baskaran

The determinants of democracy: a sensitivity analysis pp. 87-111

Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Håvard Hegre

The transformation of supreme values: Evidence from Poland on salvation through civic engagement pp. 113-129

Jan Fałkowski and Przemysław Kurek

Economic growth and political extremism pp. 131-159

Markus Brückner and Hans Peter Grüner

Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights pp. 161-182

Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier

Extra votes to signal loyalty: regional political cycles and national elections in Russia pp. 183-213

Oleg Sidorkin and Dmitriy Vorobyev

What are the best quorum rules? A laboratory investigation pp. 215-231

Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C. Magalhães and Christoph Vanberg

Virgil Henry Storr and Ginny Seung Choi, Do markets corrupt our morals? pp. 233-236

Michael Munger

Charles H. Anderton and John R. Carter: Principles of conflict economics: The political economy of war, terrorism, genocide, and peace pp. 237-239

Shikha Basnet Silwal

Randall G. Holcombe, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History. Oakland, California: Independent Institute, 2019, xx + 245 pp, USD 24.95 (hardback) pp. 241-244

Jonathan W. Plante

Volume 184, issue 3, 2020

Legal corruption? pp. 219-233

Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston

Are women more likely to throw the rascals out? The mobilizing effect of social service spending on female voters pp. 235-261

Amy C. Alexander, Andreas Bågenholm and Nicholas Charron

Birds of a feather flock together: trust in government, political selection and electoral punishment pp. 263-287

Massimo Finocchiaro Castro and Calogero Guccio

The rise of populist parties in the aftermath of a massive corruption scandal pp. 289-306

Alessandra Foresta

Corruption predictability and corruption voting in Asian democracies pp. 307-326

Eric C. C. Chang

Corruption around the world: an analysis by partial least squares—structural equation modeling pp. 327-350

Roberto Dell’Anno

The determinants of cross-border corruption pp. 351-378

Laarni Escresa and Lucio Picci

Ethics and good governance pp. 379-398

Roger Congleton

Bridge burning and escape routes pp. 399-414

Paul Pecorino

Approval voting and Shapley ranking pp. 415-428

Pierre Dehez and Victor Ginsburgh

Campaign contributions and policy convergence: asymmetric agents and donations constraints pp. 429-461

Eric Dunaway and Felix Munoz-Garcia

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: the narrow corridor: states, societies, and the fate of liberty pp. 463-466

Randall Holcombe

Paul Dragos Aligica: Public entrepreneurship, citizenship, and self-governance pp. 467-472

Malte Dold and Elias Emmerick

Chris W. Surprenant and Jason Brennan: Injustice for all: how financial incentives corrupted and can fix the US criminal justice system pp. 473-476

Brendan D. Dooley

Volume 184, issue 1, 2020

Property confiscation and the intergenerational transmission of education in post-1948 Eastern Europe pp. 1-41

Steven B Caudill, Stephanie O. Crofton, João Ricardo Faria, Neela D. Manage, Franklin Mixon and Mary Greer Simonton

The economic impact of city–county consolidations: a synthetic control approach pp. 43-77

Joshua Hall, Josh Matti and Yang Zhou

Electoral incentives and Public Employees’ Retirement Systems in Brazilian municipalities pp. 79-103

Bernardo P. Schettini and Rafael Terra

Who seeks reelection: local fiscal restraints and political selection pp. 105-134

Susana Peralta and João Pereira Dos Santos

Political connections, political favoritism and political competition: evidence from the granting of building permits by French mayors pp. 135-155

Christophe Lévêque

Governance under the shadow of the law: trading high value fine art pp. 157-174

Anja Shortland and Andrew Shortland

Individualism and governance of the commons pp. 175-195

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili and Raufhon Salahodjaev

The prevalence and consequences of ballot truncation in ranked-choice elections pp. 197-218

D. Marc Kilgour, Jean-Charles Grégoire and Angèle M. Foley

Volume 183, issue 3, 2020

James M. Buchanan centennial birthday academic conference: an introduction to the special issue pp. 223-226

Daniel Smith

The real purpose of the program: a case study in James M. Buchanan’s efforts at academic entrepreneurship to “save the books” in economics pp. 227-245

Peter Boettke and John Kroencke

How Buchanan’s concern for the South shaped his first academic works pp. 247-271

Alain Marciano

From subjectivism to constitutionalism: the intellectual journey of James M. Buchanan through his Italian heroes pp. 273-285

Giuseppe Eusepi

Where Chicago meets London: James M. Buchanan, Virginia Political Economy, and cost theory pp. 287-302

Peter Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela

James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion” pp. 303-314

Ross Emmett

The broken bridge of public finance: majority rule, earmarked taxes and social engineering pp. 315-338

William Shughart and Josh T. Smith

J. M. Buchanan’s contractarian constitutionalism: political economy for democratic society pp. 339-370

Viktor J. Vanberg

James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future pp. 371-387

Randall Holcombe

Buchanan at the American Founding: the constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals pp. 389-403

John Meadowcroft

Academia in Anarchy: 50 years on pp. 405-416

Joshua Hall

The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory pp. 417-441

Phillip W. Magness

Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science pp. 443-459

Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas

Rediscovering Buchanan’s rediscovery: non-market exchange versus antiseptic allocation pp. 461-477

Nicolas Cachanosky and Edward Lopez

The subjectivist-contrarian position pp. 479-494

Adam Martin

Can a contractarian be a paternalist? The logic of James M. Buchanan’s system pp. 495-507

Mario J. Rizzo and Malte Dold

Moral community and moral order: Buchanan’s theory of obligation pp. 509-521

Michael Munger

Volume 183, issue 1, 2020

Legislative bargaining with costly communication pp. 3-27

Anna Merkel and Christoph Vanberg

Can a deportation policy backfire? pp. 29-41

Oded Stark and Łukasz Byra

Electoral cycles, partisan effects and US naturalization policies pp. 43-68

Marcus Drometer and Romuald Méango

Common pool effects and local public debt in amalgamated municipalities pp. 69-99

Benedikt Fritz and Lars Feld

On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels pp. 101-132

Roger Congleton, Youngshin Kim and Alexander Marsella

The failure of a Nazi “killer” amendment pp. 133-149

Andreas Kleiner and Benny Moldovanu

Extensions of the Simpson voting rule to the committee selection setting pp. 151-185

Daniela Bubboloni, Mostapha Diss and Michele Gori

Measuring majority power and veto power of voting rules pp. 187-210

Aleksei Kondratev and Alexander Nesterov

Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke, and Vlad Tarko: Public governance and the classical-liberal perspective: political economy foundations pp. 211-214

Alexander William Salter

Pierre Salmon: Yardstick Competition among Governments: Accountability and Policymaking when Citizens Look Across Borders pp. 215-217

Joan Costa-Font

Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama, Persecution and toleration: the long road to religious freedom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, xiv + 354 pp, USD 29.99 (paperback) pp. 219-222

Vincent Geloso