Access Statistics for Roger D. Congleton

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A Test of the Institutionally Induced Equilibrium Hypothesis: On the Limited Fiscal Impact of Two Celebrity Governors 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 0 1 18 0 0 2 62
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 0 1 1 59
Coping with unpleasant surprises in a complex world: Is rational choice possible in a world with positive information costs? 0 0 0 51 0 0 1 134
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 0 0 0 60 0 0 1 208
On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run 0 0 0 6 1 1 3 52
On the Evolution of Organizational Government 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 99
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 42
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 39
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 30
The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 90 1 1 3 68
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 0 0 0 60 0 0 6 117
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 6
Total Working Papers 0 0 1 388 2 5 26 922


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 1 2 7 120
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 1 1 2 49
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 16 0 0 1 64
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 28
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 143
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 12
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 0 0 5 0 2 8 28
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 0 1 3 31
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 1 50 0 1 4 118
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 20
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 56
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 844
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 0 0 0 45 0 1 4 377
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 0 0 228 0 0 0 443
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 0 0 0 146 0 1 2 408
Ethics and good governance 0 0 0 19 1 1 14 117
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 25
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 16
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 1 1 31 0 2 3 99
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 31
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 0 1 5 2 3 4 33
Grounding multidisciplinary public policy analysis in methodological individualism: with an illustrating study of the economic and political effects of variations in a nation’s average work ethic 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 6
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 25
Help, harm or avoid? On the personal advantage of dispositions to cooperate and punish in multilateral PD games with exit 0 0 0 22 2 3 4 91
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 0 0 6 264
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 1 24 1 2 4 152
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 254
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 121
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 37
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 49
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 1 2 39 1 2 8 163
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 279
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 1 2 3 99
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 142
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 57
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs 0 0 1 33 0 0 3 121
On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 266
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 29
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 1 1 1 46
On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft 0 0 0 17 1 1 4 104
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 57
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 56
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 1 130 1 2 5 406
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 2 2 2 182
On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels 0 0 1 4 0 3 6 29
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 6
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 112
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 234
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 0 0 0 499 1 2 11 1,372
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 1 10 0 1 4 35
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 1 48 1 2 4 159
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 2 73 1 2 11 394
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 1 1 2 14 2 3 4 40
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 31
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 1 5 0 0 6 31
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 32
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 1 3 6 31
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 20
The Dark Side of the Force: Economic Foundations of Conflict Theory, by Hirshleifer, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 366 pp., USD 90|GBP 60 (cloth); USD 29.95|GBP 20.95 (paper) 0 0 2 126 2 3 7 373
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 2 2 4 116
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 255
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 179
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 0 1 21 2 2 12 121
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 331
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 41
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 67
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 0 172 0 0 1 480
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 67
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 1 3 6 138
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 1 16 0 0 3 94
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 0 4 132 0 1 6 521
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 1 30 0 0 2 125
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 102
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 66
Total Journal Articles 1 3 27 2,513 46 83 259 11,694


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 54
Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 43
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 67
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 53
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 217


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 0 1 4 66 0 1 9 160
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 6
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 0 2 4 69
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 0 1 5 0 0 2 10
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 1 1 1 2 11 14
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 2 5 15 18
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 1 1 40 1 2 3 96
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 3 4 0 0 6 10
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 20
Total Chapters 0 2 10 128 5 17 66 426


Statistics updated 2025-11-08