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Balancing democracy: majoritarianism versus expression of preference intensity Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Asaf D. M. Nitzan, Shmuel I. Nitzan
This paper evaluates three prominent voting systems: the Majority Rule (MR), Borda Rule (BR), and Plurality Rule (PR). Our analysis centers on the susceptibilities of each system to potential transgressions of two foundational principles: the respect for majority preference (majoritarianism) and the acknowledgment of the intensity of individual preferences. We operationalize the concept of 'cost' as
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Axiomatization of plurality refinements Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Abstract Plurality rule uniquely satisfies anonymity, monotonicity, neutrality, and tops-onlyness. However, it is not always able to produce resolute outcomes. We study singleton-valued refinements of plurality rule that satisfy all but one of these four axioms. Monotonicity is preserved by all refinements of plurality, whereas no refinement satisfies the remaining three except for a very limited case
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‘Keep friends close, but enemies closer’: connections and political careers Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Abstract Using newly collected data on ties between local politicians in Italy from 1985 onwards, this paper studies the relation between cross-party connections and future career prospects. Exploiting a difference-in-discontinuities design, I find that ruling coalition members connected with the leader of the opposition in local councils are twice as likely to be promoted to the local government.
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Conflict under the shadow of elections Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Antonis Adam, Maxime Menuet, Petros G. Sekeris
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Regional favoritism in access to credit Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Francis Osei-Tutu, Laurent Weill
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Revolutionary leaders and the punishment of critics Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Christian J. Sander
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Prevention externalities: private and public responses to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Byron Carson
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Assessing the effect of international terrorism on civil liberties using a potential outcomes framework Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Antonis Adam, Evi Tsavou
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The political economy of criminal governance Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 David Skarbek
How can people who do not rely on effective government institutions establish property rights, enforce agreements, and facilitate social and economic exchange? Scholars of public choice have long studied anarchic settings to understand foundational questions of political economy, such as the viability and robustness of self-enforcing exchange, the emergence of coercive power, and the Madisonian challenge
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Regulatory independence may limit electoral holdup but entrench capture Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Arthur Schram, Aljaž Ule
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Against the tide: how changes in political alignment affect grant allocation to municipalities in Hungary Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Tamás Vasvári, Dóra Longauer
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Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-01-26
Abstract This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a policy that targets criminal infiltration in local governments on the provision of local public goods in Italian municipalities. Building on the theoretical framework proposed by Dal Bò (American Political Science Review 100:41–53, 2006), we use a sufficient statistic approach to describe the dynamic behaviour of local public goods when stricter
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The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Terry L. Anderson, Ilia Murtazashvili, Dominic P. Parker
Historically and currently, federal policies governing American Indian country do not typically resemble policies that economists think would stimulate economic and cultural prosperity. This special issue employs Public Choice and New Institutional Economics to analyze the origins and consequences of these policies. This approach, which emphasizes rent seeking, government failure, and formal and informal
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Natural disasters and voter gratitude: What is the role of prevention policies? Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Carla Morvan, Sonia Paty
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Size isn’t everything: COVID-19 and the role of government Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
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On the tendency of revolutions to devour their own children Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Louis Rouanet
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Manipulating municipal budgets: unveiling opportunistic behavior of Italian mayors Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Emanuele Bracco, Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maurizio Lisciandra
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Competitive authoritarianism, informational authoritarianism, and the development of dictatorship: a case study of Belarus Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anthony J. Evans
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Democracy, corruption, and endogenous entrepreneurship policy Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Simon C. Parker
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The timber wars: the endangered species act, the northwest forest plan, and the political economy of timber management in the Pacific northwest Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Luke Petach
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Governing complex externalities: property rights for sharing radio spectrum Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Thomas W. Hazlett, Ali F. Palida, Martin B. H. Weiss
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Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Tariq Basir, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Analysis of revolutions typically focuses on de jure constitutions and how their elite- or mass-led character influences their consequences. De facto constitutions are political and economic rules that people use to govern themselves which may or may not be recognized in the evolving de jure constitution. We argue that the nature of change resulting from revolutions depends on whether the emergent
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Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Andre Varella Mollick, Andre Coelho Vianna
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Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing? Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Keith Ihlanfeldt, Cynthia Fan Yang
It is well known that the racial composition of a neighborhood influences who chooses to live there. Less established is whether the political party mix of the neighborhood influences neighborhood choice. In this paper, we study racial and political neighborhood sorting, their interaction, and how they are changing over time. Our methodology involves the estimation of a conditional logit model with
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Failed secular revolutions: religious belief, competition, and extremism Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Jean-Paul Carvalho, Jared Rubin, Michael Sacks
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Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Ilia Murtazashvili, Yang Zhou
The conventional wisdom guiding pandemic policy is that the complexity of externalities justifies a centralized government response and suppression of economic freedom. We argue that public choice offers a compelling argument that the opposite is the case: complex global public health crises justify polycentric responses and protection of economic freedom. We show this by considering three distinct
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Regulatory capture in a resource boom Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Timothy Fitzgerald
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Road maintenance over the local election cycle Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Margaret Bock, Benjamin Blemings
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Democracy and fiscal-policy response to COVID-19 Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Sezer Yasar, Ceyhun Elgin
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Harold A. Black academic conference: an introduction to the special issue Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Ramon P. DeGennaro, Daniel J. Smith
This special issue brings together the papers presented and discussed at the Harold A. Black Academic Conference hosted by the Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Black is an emeritus
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The supply and demand of marital contracts: the case of same-sex marriage Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Clara E. Piano, Rachael Behr, Kacey Reeves West
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Ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect: a supplementary note Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Nicholas R. Miller
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Markets and knowledge commons: Is there a difference between private and community governance of markets? Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Erwin Dekker, Pavel V. Vasiliev
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Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Jaakko Meriläinen, Janne Tukiainen
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Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Nathan Goodman, Otto Lehto
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Is participatory democracy in line with social protest? Evidence from the French Yellow Vests movement Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Benjamin Monnery, François-Charles Wolff
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Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Jante Parlevliet, Massimo Giuliodori, Matthijs Rooduijn
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Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Wesley H. Holliday, Eric Pacuit
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Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Emanuel Wittberg, Mihály Fazekas
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Quiet revolutions in early-modern England Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
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Rent dissipation in large population Tullock contests Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Ratul Lahkar, Rezina Sultana
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Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Phillip W. Magness, Art Carden, Ilia Murtazashvili
This paper investigates Gordon Tullock’s unpublished manuscripts that proposed a public choice interpretation of American slavery. Drafted in response to Conrad and Meyer’s seminal 1958 article on the economics of slavery, Tullock’s writings influenced the early debate over slavery through his University of Virginia colleague John E. Moes. This paper uses Tullock’s surviving writings to map out his
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More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Fabio Motoki, Valdemar Pinho Neto, Victor Rodrigues
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Religious reforms and large-scale rebellions (via the case of the Honganji sect of the True Pure Land Buddhism) Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Vladimir Maltsev
The paper explores the economics behind two large-scale rebellions in Japan throughout 1532–1536 and 1570–1580, launched by a religious organization called Honganji. The paper argues that Honganji’s large-scale rebellions took off primarily due to religious reforms, particularly, the creation of an after-life pardon doctrine, which enabled the functioning of more potent incentives that fostered participation
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Banking regulation got you down? The rise of fintech and cryptointermediation in Africa Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Edward Peter Stringham
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Criminal justice from a public choice perspective: an introduction to the special issue Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Jordan Adamson, Lucas Rentschler
In recent years, we have learned much about how police, defendants, and prosecutors are affected by different policies. At the same time, economic theory is being forgotten or disregarded. Even more so today, economists and political scientists treat “the enforcement apparatus of police, courts, prosecutors, and legislature as a philosopher-king, with imperfect knowledge but only the best of motives”
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Revolutionary Constitutions: are they revolutionary in terms of constitutional design? Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Justin T. Callais, Andrew T. Young
We use comparative constitutions project (CCP) data to explore whether Constitutions that follow revolutions are designed differently. We employ matching methods using 36 treatments (revolutionary Constitutions) and 162 control units (new Constitutional adoptions without a revolution). We find some evidence that revolutionary Constitutions are less rigid (i.e., their procedural barriers to amendment
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You can’t always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jack A. Goldstone
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On the nature and structure of externalities Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Pablo Paniagua, Veeshan Rayamajhee
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Credit for me but not for thee: the effects of the Illinois rate cap Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 J. Brandon Bolen, Gregory Elliehausen, Thomas W. Miller
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Bargaining in the shadow of conflict: resource division and War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in the commons Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jeremy Kettering, Shane Sanders
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Race, risk, and greed: Harold Black's contributions to the institutional economics of finance Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Michael Munger, Cameron Tilley
Dr. Harold Black has made a career of investigating the effects of different rules and institutional arrangements on the extent to which market participants in finance can exercise a taste for discrimination. This paper considers the nature of Black's contributions, and reviews some particulars of his voluminous published research, focusing especially on his work on the number of "overages" charged
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The pre-pandemic political economy determinants of lockdown severity Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Vincent Miozzi, Benjamin Powell
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Government externalities Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Aris Trantidis
Governments are expected to tackle externalities such as pollution, epidemics and environmental catastrophes, but whether and how governments themselves generate externalities is a question equally important for exploring socially beneficial policies and institutional reforms. The problem with defining government externalities is that governments, through regulation and distribution, inevitably allocate
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Revolutions of the mind, (threats of) actual revolutions, and institutional change Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Diego F. Grijalva
I construct a simple theoretical model that incorporates the role of ideas and contested persuasion in processes of institutional change, specifically democratization. The model helps reconcile the view that extensions of the franchise in Western Europe tended to occur as a response to the threat of revolution with the view that these occurred based on a change of social values due to the Enlightenment
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Individualism and racial tolerance Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Claudia Williamson Kramer
This paper explores how cultural values associated with individualism versus collectivism affect attitudes toward racial tolerance. Individualism refers to social norms and cultural values that support individual rights and self-determination. Therefore, individualism is inherently egalitarian and should transcend racial identities, fostering attitudes of racial tolerance. To empirically examine the
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Did the 2010 Dodd–Frank Banking Act deflate property values in low-income neighborhoods? Public Choice (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Craig J. Richardson, Zachary D. Blizard