Public Choice

1966 - 2025

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Volume 34, issue 3, 1979

Federal tax burdens and grant benefits to states: The impact of imperfect representation pp. 255-269

James Bennett and Eddie Mayberry

The cost of voting: Its fiscal impact on government pp. 271-284

Robert McCormick and Richard McKenzie

Property tax consciousness pp. 285-295

Peter Ordeshook

Dynamic models of the voter's decision calculus: Incorporating retrospective considerations into rational-choice models of individual voting behavior pp. 297-315

Martin Zechman

Local fiscal crises and intergovernmental grants: A suggested hypothesis pp. 317-331

Roger Faith

Budget-maximizing agencies and efficiency in government pp. 333-357

Thomas McGuire, Michael Coiner and Larry Spancake

Non-monetary competition for students within the university pp. 359-363

John Lewis and T. Cott

Legislative profits and the rate of change of money wages: A graphical exposition pp. 365-380

Manfred Gärtner

The expenditure effects of alternative public supply institutions pp. 381-397

Robert Deacon

The electoral lottery: Decisions to run for Congress pp. 399-418

Linda Fowler

Outcomes of logrolling in the bargaining set and democratic theory: Some conjectures pp. 419-434

Joe Oppenheimer

Some aspects of the political economy of election campaign contribution laws pp. 435-461

Peter Aranson and Melvin Hinich

A note on the optimal use of clearance procedures pp. 463-466

David Weimer

Bureaucracy and grants-in-aid pp. 467-471

Joseph Magaddino and Roger Meiners

Coupon rationing and rent-seeking bureaucrats pp. 473-479

Marilyn Flowers and Richard Stroup

On the mutuality of interests between bureaus and high demand review committees: A perverse result pp. 481-491

Robert Mackay and Carolyn Weaver

Complexity as a characteristic of policies in Albert Breton's economic theory of representative government pp. 493-498

Lawrence Bezeau

Government as a super Becker-altruist pp. 499-504

Bruce Bolnick

A further note on migration patterns and local government policy toward public education pp. 505-507

Anthony Ostrosky

Volume 34, issue 2, 1979

A simple direction model of electoral competition pp. 141-156

Steven Matthews

Vote trading in a legislative context: An analysis of cooperative and noncooperative strategic voting pp. 157-175

James Enelow and David Koehler

Nonmanipulable multi-valued social decision functions pp. 177-188

Allan Feldman

Abstention in two-candidate and three-candidate elections when voters use mixed strategies pp. 189-200

Bernard Grofman

Electoral College reform and the distribution of voting power pp. 201-215

Douglas Blair

Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments pp. 217-230

James Buchanan and Roger Congleton

On the appeal (or is it repeal?) of minimum wage laws: A reply to Browning pp. 231-232

Frank Steindl

Reviews pp. 233-254

David Friedman, Alan Waters, John Moore, Bernard Lentz and Gordon Tullock

Volume 34, issue 1, 1979

Rent-seeking competition in political parties pp. 5-14

Robert McCormick and Robert Tollison

Public interest lobbies: membership and influence pp. 45-54

James Kau and Paul Rubin

Public versus private provision of collective goods and services: garbage collection revisited pp. 55-63

James Bennett and Manuel Johnson

The effect of electoral rules on voting behavior: the electoral college and shift voting pp. 69-85

Richard Bensel and M. Sanders

Social welfare functions when preferences are convex, strictly monotonic, and continuous pp. 87-97

Ehud Kalai, Eitan Muller and Mark Satterthwaite

Class conflict and fairness in “democratic capitalism” pp. 99-116

Yvo Dirickx and Murat Sertel

The impact of institutional structures on city-country consolidation outcomes pp. 117-122

Mark Toma

Pareto-optimality and gains-form-trade: a public choice interpretation pp. 123-127

Charles Rowley and Martin Walker

Living costs, the Tiebout hypothesis, and welfare policy pp. 129-130

Richard Cebula

Volume 33, issue 4, 1978

Pigouvian policies in closed behavioral systems pp. 5-26

Peter Aranson, Terry Ferrar and Peter Sassone

Political resource allocation, controlled agendas, and the status quo pp. 27-43

Thomas Romer and Howard Rosenthal

Testing political economy’s ‘as if’ proposition: is the median income voter really decisive? pp. 45-65

Robert Inman

The right to vote no: revising the voting system and resuscitating the F-Y voter pp. 67-83

Francisco Arcelus, Gary Mauser and Zane Spindler

State tax structure and the supply of AFDC assistance pp. 85-96

Hugh Spall

A collective goods model of pluralist political systems pp. 97-113

John Chamberlin

Agency budgets and the use of eligibility rules pp. 115-130

Robin Walther and Jeffrey Chapman

A note on nonwhite migration: welfare levels and the political process: a comment pp. 131-134

S. Jones-Hendrickson

Nonwhite migration, welfare, and politics: a re-examination pp. 135-136

Richard Cebula

Volume 33, issue 3, 1978

Cycles in senatorial voting behavior: implications for the optimal frequency of elections pp. 5-13

Ryan Amacher and William Boyes

An economic analysis of the voting on Michigan's tax and expenditure limitation amendment pp. 15-26

Steve Mariotti

The rational voter: an analysis of two Atlanta referenda on rapid transit pp. 27-44

Larry Schroeder and David Sjoquist

Constitutional guarantees and the distribution of power and wealth pp. 45-63

Jürgen Backhaus

On the stability of logrolling outcomes in stochastic games pp. 65-82

Peter Bernholz

Campaign spending and votes: a reconsideration pp. 83-92

Ron Johnston

Revenue sharing and monopoly government pp. 93-97

Richard McKenzie and Robert Staaf

Election periods and state tax policy cycles pp. 99-106

John Mikesell

Donor optimization and the food stamp program: comment pp. 107-111

Edgar Browning

On the political economy of food stamps pp. 113-117

J. Giertz and Dennis Sullivan

A note on providing public goods through voluntary contributions pp. 119-123

Clarence Morrison

An alternative campaign finance reform: public “laundries” for secret cash contributions pp. 125-127

John Beck

Reviews pp. 129-133

Robert Tollison, Barry Keating and James Buchanan

Volume 33, issue 2, 1978

A linear inequality method of establishing certain social choice conjectures pp. 5-16

J. Chamberlin and Malcolm Cohen

An economic approach to social choice — II pp. 17-31

Ted Bergstrom and Trout Rader

Social choice and economic growth pp. 33-48

Nathaniel Beck

The inevitability of the “paradox of redistribution” in the allocation of voting weights pp. 49-67

Dietrich Fischer and Andrew Schotter

The effects of abstentions on election outcomes pp. 69-82

William Gehrlein and Peter Fishburn

Some evidence on non-voting models in the spatial theory of electoral competition pp. 83-102

Melvin Hinich

Revealed public preference and social utility pp. 103-115

Perry Shapiro

The collective allocation of commodities in a democratic society: a generalization pp. 117-120

Lawrence Kenny

What happens when majority rule breaks down? pp. 121-126

Colin Bell

Empirical estimates for the likelihood of a divided verdict in a presidental election pp. 127-133

Samuel Merrill

Volume 33, issue 1, 1978

Pareto on public choice pp. 5-17

Jurgen Backhaus

The evaluation of corporate contributions pp. 19-28

Ferdinand Levy and Gloria Shatto

The ‘crowding-out’ effect of governmental transfers on private charitable contributions pp. 29-39

Burton Abrams and Mark Schitz

Coordination and the management of estuarine water quality pp. 41-53

Mark Sproule-Jones

Optimality and the institutional structure of bureaucracy pp. 55-59

Randall Holcombe and Edward Price

On the distributional implications of collective provision of public goods pp. 61-69

Mo-Yin Tam and Joseph Persky

Politicians and property rights pp. 71-74

Adam Gifford and Gary Santoni

Strategic voting and the borda method pp. 85-90

William Ludwin

More on the appeal of minimum wage laws pp. 91-93

Edgar Browning

Fiscal illusion, the nature of public goods and equation specification pp. 95-100

Vincent Munley and Kenneth Greene