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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 2 3 5 6
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 1 1 18 0 1 3 62
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 58
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 3 134
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 0 0 0 60 0 0 2 207
On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 49
On the Evolution of Organizational Government 0 0 0 41 0 0 1 99
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 41
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 1 90 0 0 3 66
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 0 0 0 60 0 2 4 115
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 5
Total Working Papers 0 1 2 388 2 8 25 911


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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 2 3 6 117
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 47
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 15 0 0 5 63
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 27
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 0 1 1 142
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 0 4 5 1 2 12 24
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 28
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 49 2 2 3 116
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 0 1 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 1 1 2 11
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 842
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 0 0 2 45 1 1 7 374
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 0 0 228 0 0 2 443
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 0 0 0 146 0 0 2 406
Ethics and good governance 0 0 5 19 1 7 35 112
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 24
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 16
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 0 3 30 0 0 5 96
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 30
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 1 1 5 0 1 4 30
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 1 2 4 5
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 23
Help, harm or avoid? On the personal advantage of dispositions to cooperate and punish in multilateral PD games with exit 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 87
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 3 3 4 261
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 0 23 0 1 2 149
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 1 36 0 0 4 121
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 2 10 0 0 4 36
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 48
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 0 3 37 5 5 12 160
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 1 27 1 1 2 279
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 97
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 1 36 0 0 2 142
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 55
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs 0 0 2 33 1 2 4 121
On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 264
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 28
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 45
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 1 17 0 1 4 101
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 56
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 56
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 0 129 0 0 2 401
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 0 0 0 180
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 1 1 4 0 2 2 25
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 5
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 234
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 0 0 6 499 0 3 25 1,366
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 32
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 3 72 0 1 10 387
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 1 48 0 0 3 157
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 0 0 2 13 0 0 5 37
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 0 1 13 29
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 27
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 30
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 26
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 19
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 0 124 0 1 3 367
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 113
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 254
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 173
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 0 1 20 0 0 9 111
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 0 0 3 331
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 40
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 63
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 4 172 1 1 7 480
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 64
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 0 1 2 133
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 1 1 1 16 1 1 2 92
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 3 4 131 0 4 9 519
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 1 29 1 1 2 124
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 100
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 64
Total Journal Articles 1 6 52 2,496 28 63 278 11,522


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 54
Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 64
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 51
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 5 20 210


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 0 2 3 64 1 4 7 156
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 2 2 4 67
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 1 3 5 1 2 5 10
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 1 1 1 1 8 11 11
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 1 7 11 11
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
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 1 2
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 0 1 39 1 1 2 94
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 6
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 18
Total Chapters 0 4 9 122 8 29 55 391


Statistics updated 2025-03-03